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Old 08-07-2022, 11:35   #1
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Exclamation Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

BREAKING: Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been confirmed dead after he was shot at a campaign event, public broadcaster NHK and Jiji news agency reported. -AFP News Agency.
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Old 08-07-2022, 11:58   #2
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

Pretty shocking stuff from Japan of all places. Apparently one of the hardest places to get hold of a gun in the world.
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

Very sad to hear of this terrible news as the last time there was a assassination like this was in the 1930s in Japan.
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

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Mr Abe was shot from behind with what appeared to be a homemade gun.

It is the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the 1930s.

Mr Abe held his chest as he collapsed, his shirt smeared with blood. NHK showed footage of security guards running towards him.

A puff of white smoke was seen as he made a campaign speech outside a railway station ahead of elections to Japan's upper house on Sunday.

A reporter at the scene said they heard two consecutive bangs during Mr Abe's address.

His death was also confirmed by a source within the ruling Liberal Democrat Party, Reuters reported.
https://news.sky.com/story/shinzo-ab...-says-12648011
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

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Pretty shocking stuff from Japan of all places. Apparently one of the hardest places to get hold of a gun in the world.
Homemade gun apparently.

A very sad day. RIP.
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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated

It doesn't go too in depth but here is an interesting article about it


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SNA (Tokyo) — Unemployed loner Tetsuya Yamagami hoped to use his homemade shotgun on Shinzo Abe not mainly to kill Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, but to take his revenge on the Unification Church, which he blamed for destroying his life and that of his family. Improbably, the assassination has become a wild political success. Yamagami’s “bank shot” strategy achieved more than he could possibly have hoped.
Source and rest of story: https://shingetsunewsagency.com/2022...-wild-success/
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Wow prettty upsetting!!
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