Longest-serving PM, known for his ‘Abenomics’ policy, shot while making campaign speech in Nara
Latest updates: former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot
The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara.
Abe, the country’s longest-serving prime minister until he resigned in 2020, was flown to hospital by helicopter after the attack. It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of prewar militarism in the 1930s.