Japan's Ex PM Shinzo Abe Dies After Being Shot

Local media reported that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was killed in Nara City

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He died after being shot during an election campaign speech

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Hours after the 67-year-old was shot in the chest and neck

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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the attack in "the strongest words" and said

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He was praying "from the depths of his heart" that Abe would be saved

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The motive for the attack is yet to be ascertained, Kishida said

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who reduced the presence of a campaign in the northern prefecture of Yamagata

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Returned by helicopter to his official residence in the capital Tokyo

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Shinzo Abe 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022

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