Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed while making a speech, with reports and video footage suggesting that he had been shot before he fell to the ground. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, said Abe – the country’s longest-serving prime minister until he resigned in 2020 – appeared to be bleeding from the chest after being shot from behind with a shotgun on Friday morning. NHK said a man had been taken into custody but provided no further details. Abe had been in the city of Nara to make a campaign speech ahead of this Sunday’s upper house elections

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