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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot during a campaign event and is reportedly fighting for his life, the Japanese government has announced.
According to Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, Abe, known as Japan’s best-known politician, was shot during a campaign event on Friday, July 8.
“Former Prime Minister Abe was shot at around 11:30 am,” Matsuno told reporters in the country’s western region of Nara.
“A man, believed to be the gunman, has been arrested. It is not known at the moment how things are going with former Prime Minister Abe.
“Whatever the reason, such a barbaric act can never be tolerated and we strongly condemn it,” Matsuno added.
Local media, including national broadcaster NHK and Kyodo news agency, said the former prime minister appeared to have a “cardiorespiratory arrest,” a term often used in Japan before a feared death can be officially confirmed by a coroner.
The attacks come despite Japan’s famously low levels of violent crime and strict gun laws.
Abe, 67, had delivered a speech at an event ahead of Sunday’s senate elections, with heavy security in place but onlookers could easily approach him.
Footage shows him standing on a stage when a loud explosion is heard and smoke can be seen in the air.
A man is then seen being pushed to the ground by security.
“He was making a speech and a man came from behind,” a young woman at the scene told NHK.
“The first shot sounded like a toy. He didn’t fall and there was a big bang. The second shot was more visible, you could see the spark and smoke,” she added.
“After the second shot, people surrounded him and gave him chest compressions.”
A Nara Medical University hospital official told AFP: “What we can now share is that his transfer here has been completed,” declined to comment on the status of the former leader.
“We are all saddened and shocked by the shooting of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,” US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said in a statement.
“The US government and the American people pray for the well-being of Abe-san, his family and the people of Japan.”
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s special adviser, General Nakatani, told reporters that “terror or violence can never be tolerated”.
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe held office for a year in 2006 and again from 2012 to 2020, when he was forced to resign due to his bowel disease ulcerative colitis.
In Japan, obtaining a gun license is a long and complicated process, even for Japanese citizens, who must first get a recommendation from a shooting club and then undergo strict police checks.
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