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Tetsuya Yamagami, a 41-year-old resident of Nara City, in western Japan shot Abe while he was delivering a campaign speech on Friday.
Handmade guns are practically impossible to trace, making investigations difficult. Such weapons are rarely used in Japan, where most attacks involve stabbings or dousing a place with gasoline and setting it ablaze.
The assassin stood metres behind Abe, took aim with his hand-made gun, made of two pipes and a board, and two bullets hit the Japanese leader on his neck and chest. Abe passed away six hours after the attack due to huge blood loss.
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Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he began his speech ahead of the weekend's Upper House elections in one of the world's safest nations that has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere, according to Kyodo News.
Shinzo Abe Death News: Shinzo Abe served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving Prime Minister in Japanese history.
Shinzo Abe shooting: Former Japan PM is born in Tokyo, the son of Shintaro Abe, who served as Japan’s foreign minister, and grandson of Nobusuke Kishi, a former prime minister.
Shinzo Abe shot at: The gun attack on former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come as a big shock as Japan has the strictest gun control laws.
Shinzo Abe shot: Abe was airlifted to a hospital but he was not breathing and his heart had stopped, officials in Japan said.
The incident took place in Nara town where he was addressing an election meeting ahead of Sunday's polling for the Upper House of the Parliament.
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