Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital and was bleeding after he was reportedly shot on Friday in Nara, a city in western Japan.
Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was delivering a speech for a Liberal Democratic Party of Japan candidate’s election campaign when he collapsed and appeared to have been shot in the chest.
The incident took place near Yamato-Saidaiji Station.
A reporter for public broadcaster NHK said she heard what sounded like two consecutive gunshots and then saw Abe bleeding.
Footage aired by the station captured the moment he fell on the street, after which several security guards ran toward him. He was bleeding and holding his chest….