The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot while making a campaign speech, plunging the country into grief over the loss of its longest-serving PM. 'The free and fair election, which is the root of democracy, needs to be protected no matter what. We will not be defeated by violence,' said the current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, Abe’s protege, struggling to keep his emotions in check

• Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, dies after being shot