Japan’s longtime ruled former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died Friday (8th July) after being shot while campaigning for parliament elections.
Abe, 67, was shot in the back while he was speaking at a drab traffic island in the western city of Nara by a man brandishing a supposedly homemade gun.
Abe was taken to a hospital immediately following the attack. The suspect in Abe’s attack has been detained by the police.
Police identified the alleged gunman as Tetsuya Yamagami, a native living of Nara. Doctors who served Shinzo Abe in the hospital said that, “bullet have penetrated the heart.”
A doctor stated that, “there was a massive hole in the heart caused by the weapon wound.” The doctors also stated that he received two shots to the neck.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences over the sudden demise of former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe on Friday (8th July), saying that Abe dedicated his life in improving the world and that India would observe a day of national mourning on July 9 in his honour.
