Ex-Japan PM Abe shot by person with shotgun

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot by person with shotgun

Photo taken in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows an area near the location where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot from behind earlier in the day by an unidentified man wielding a shotgun. Abe was giving a stump speech for the weekend's House of Councillors election at the time of the attack.

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