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Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.
He first took office in 2006 as Japan's youngest prime minister since World War Two.
TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei index shed most of its early gains to end flat on Friday after Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election.
Shinzo Abe became Japan`s longest-serving premier in November 2019, but by the summer of 2020, public support had been eroded by his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak as well as a series of scandals including the arrest of his former justice minister.
TOKYO (AP) — Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an arch-conservative and one of...