The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. The hospital that tried to save him said he died at 5.03pm (08.03 GMT), about five and a half hours after he was shot. A doctor said Abe had bled to death from two gunshot wounds to the neck. He had no vital signs when he was brought in.
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