Health services have tried unsuccessfully to restore his vital functions after he suffered a cardiac arrest. The alleged aggressor, a 41-year-old former army member, has been arrested.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies in hospital after cardiac arrest when he was hit with gunfire on Friday during an election act.
Abe was transferred by ambulance and later by helicopter after the incident and health services have tried to restore your vital signsaccording to the police and health services of the city of Nara (western Japan), where the attack took place.
Apparently the former Japanese president got gunshots in the back during a campaign speech on the street near a train station in the aforementioned city, according to local police, who have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the attack.
Eyewitnesses to the attack say two shots were heard at the scene and Abe then fell to the ground, state network NHK said.
The incident took place this Friday around 11:30 am local time (4:30 am in the Basque Country) and in the presence of numerous citizens attending the campaign event or walking near the Yamato-Saidaiji station.
The detainee, former army member
The detainee is Yamagami Tetsuya, a 41-year-old man and former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces.
Tetsuya, from the city of Nara, in western Japan, has been arrested while holding a weapon with which he allegedly shot the former Japanese president twice.
Until 2005, the alleged aggressor worked for three years in the naval branch of the Self-Defense Forces, which was responsible for the defense of the archipelago, according to sources from the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
Sentence
Several world leaders condemned the attack on Abe this Friday. Voices raised after the attack include Pedro Sánchez, Jens Stoltenberg, Ursula Von der Leyen, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinta Arden or Charles Michael.
Japan’s current Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, has stated that Abe is “very serious” and has called what happened a “barbaric act” which he condemns “in the strongest terms”.
“I sincerely hope the former prime minister survives,” Kishida said in a press appearance, before insisting the act “cannot be forgiven”. “The government wants to take all possible measures to anticipate and respond to such a situation in the future,” he added.
Abe, the longest-serving prime minister
Abe resigned as prime minister in September 2020 for health reasons after he the longest-serving Japanese politician in office.
The conservative leader was today at a campaign event for the partial elections to the Upper House of the Diet (Japan’s parliament) to be held this Sunday, which will see Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) and current Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, hopes to revalidate his vast majority.
Election rallies in Japan are usually held in the middle of the street and with few security measures, due to the low crime and firearms attacks typical of the Asian country.
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Source: EITB
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