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A former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who was shot on Friday while delivering a stump speech at a rally in the western city of Nara, is dead.
He was addressing the political rally two days to the country’s election.
Japan’s longest-serving leader was attacked by a 41-year-old man from behind at 11:30 a.m. while speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station, police said
He collapsed to the ground after two shots were fired at him.
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He was, however, rushed to hospital with blood seen on his shirt but did not survive it as he was in a state of cardiac arrest.
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