Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister of Japan, has died after succumbing to injuries from gunshot wounds sustained during a campaign speech on Friday. His death has been reported by Japanese public …
, a former prime minister of Japan, has died after succumbing to injuries from gunshot wounds sustained during a campaign speech on Friday.
Doctors who spent four and a half hours treating Abe confirmed that there were two bullet wounds, but did not find any bullets. The medics said that it was a frontal wound and that there was no neck wound. That contradicted earlier media reports that said Abe was hit from behind and was also hit on the right hand side of his neck.
Despite winning multiple elections, Abe has long been a deeply divisive figure in Japan, due to an ultra-nationalist stance that saw him wanting to revise the country’s pacifist constitution and change the military from its current status as a purely defensive force.
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