Japan's ex-PM Shinzo Abe collapses in Nara after being shot, shows no vital signs: Media


Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was speaking at a rally in Nara when he collapsed, and a sound akin to a gunshot was reportedly heard.- SCREENSHOTS FROM NHK

TOKYO (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed in the middle of a rally speech in Nara prefecture on Friday (July 8), media reports said.

Media reports said that Abe was bleeding as he collapsed and that a sound "akin to a gunshot was heard".

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