SHINJO ABE, JAPAN"S LONGEST SERVING Prime Minister, who was shot at during an election campaign in western Japan’s Nara city Friday, has died, news agency Reuters reports, quoting Japanese media house NHK.
The Nara fire department had earlier said that the 67-year-old Abe was in cardiopulmonary arrest before he was taken to the hospital. They said that he had been wounded on the right side of the neck and the left clavicle.