TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe showing no vital signs after attack: media
Shinzo was attacked and left bleeding at a campaign event in the Nara region on Friday, local media has reported.
Change Size
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes off his face mask prior to making a short speech to the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's office on August 24, 2020. - Abe earlier in the day returned to hospital on August 24 for more medical checks, a government spokesman said, a week after a first visit that fuelled growing speculation about his health. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi )
J
apan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe is showing no vital signs after being taken to hospital following an apparent attack at a campaign event in the Nara region, Japanese media reported.
"A local fire department says former prime minister Abe appears to be in a state of cardio-respiratory arrest," public broadcaster NHK said -- a term used in Japan before a feared death can be confirmed by a doctor. There was no immediate confirmation from police or fire department officials contacted by AFP.
Shinzo was attacked and left bleeding at a campaign event in the Nara region on Friday, local media has reported.
Several outlets including Kyodo news agency said the ex-premier had been attacked, with both Kyodo and public broadcaster NHK reporting the sound of an apparent gunshot. The former leader was reportedly unconscious after the incident.
The former prime minister was attacked by an unidentified man while on a road during a stump speech in western Japan on Friday morning, police said as reported by Kyodo.
He was shot from behind by an unidentified man with a shotgun during the speech for the weekend's House of Councillors election, a police source said.
