The man who shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Friday was a former member of the Japanese Navy who owned handmade guns and explosive devices and intended to kill the country's former leader, officials said.
from behind Abe, who was campaigning for a local politician ahead of the July 10 Upper House election in Nara, Japan. Abe, the longest serving Japanese prime minister , died hours later at Nara Medical University Hospital, shocking the country, where gun deaths are one of the lowest among high-income countries . Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was “lost for words” immediately after Abe’s death.
Friday morning, writing that he was “stunned, outraged and deeply saddened by the news that my friend” was shot and killed.
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