Former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, who was the country’s longest-serving leader, died on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, an official from his political party said.
A man opened fire on 67-year old Abe, from behind with an apparently homemade gun as he spoke at a drab traffic island in the western city of Nara, Japanese media showed earlier.
It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of pre-war militarism in the 1930s.
(Additional reports from Reuters)
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