VIDEO SHOWS: AERIAL FOOTAGE OF WHERE FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHINZO ABE, WAS SHOT

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SHOWS: NARA PREFECTURE, JAPAN (JULY 8, 2022) (TBS - Broadcast: No use Japan, CNN & CNNI / CNBC and NBC cannot rebroadcast Japan without prior agreement with TBS. BBC WORLD must on-screen courtesy TBS if pictures to be shown on cable or communications satellite services in Japan/Cannot re-use after 30 days from transmission without permission from TBS. Digital: No use Japanese websites.)

1. AERIAL OF WHERE FORMER JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHINZO ABE, WAS SHOT / POLICE INVESTIGATING AT SCENE

2. AERIAL OF POLICE INVESTIGATING AT SCENE

3. AERIAL OF WHERE ABE WAS SHOT

4. AERIAL OF POLICE AND FIRST RESPONDERS AT SCENE

STORY: Aerial footage on Friday (July 8) showed the scene where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was taken to hospital after being shot from behind by what appeared to be a man with a shotgun while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, public broadcaster NHK said.

Abe, 67, appeared to be in a state of cardiac arrest, the network said and Kyodo news agency. Shots were heard and a white puff of smoke was seen as Abe made a campaign stump speech outside a train station, NHK said.

An NHK reporter on the scene said they could hear two consecutive bangs during Abe's speech.

Abe served two terms as prime minister to become Japan's longest-serving premier before stepping down in 2020 citing ill health.

But he has remained a dominant presence over the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) party, controlling one of its major factions.
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