Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot to death in Nara

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows a helicopter carrying doctors and wounded former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heading to Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara. Abe, shot by a gunman during a House of Councillors election stump speech, was pronounced dead at the hospital later in the day.

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