Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe died hours after he was shot during a campaign event, NHK reported.

Yashi Sharma

July 8, 2022

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe died hours after he was shot during a campaign event, NHK reported.

FILE: Shinzo Abe, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary and prime minister in waiting, speaks to reporters in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, September 18, 2006. Abe Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event on Friday. July 8, 2022, in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Friday died hours after he was shot during a campaign event, public broadcaster NHK reported.

“According to a senior LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) official, former prime minister Abe died at a hospital in Kashihara city, Nara region, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 67,” news agency AFP quoted the public broadcaster.

“Shinzo Abe was transported to the hospital at 12:20 pm (local time) and was in a state of cardiac arrest when brought to the hospital,” Hidetada Fukushima, professor of emergency medicine, Nara Medical University hospital, said at a press briefing.

The politician’s demise, Fukushima explained, was due to loss of blood, which, he said, doctors could not make up for despite carrying out blood transfusions in large quantities.