Japan Prime Minister died; Shinzo Abe shot leaving behind wife on Friday.
The 67-year-old was hit during a speech in Nara Japan.
Officials arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with the shooting. Additionally, the man allegedly fired a homemade gun.
The man-made gunshot bullets piercing, “deep enough to reach his heart,” doctors at Nara Medical University, who were treating him said in a news conference Friday.
How Japan Prime Minister Died:
Due to gunshot wounds, Abe died from excessive bleeding and the bullet that killed him was “deep enough to reach his heart,” doctors at Nara Medical University said in a news conference. Two shots can be heard in video footage of the incident.
Medics at the hospital say that Shinzo Abe had no vital signs when he arrived at the hospital but that they conducted resuscitation. “It was extremely serious, it was very grave,” the medic said of his condition on arrival. He had two wounds in the neck and subcutaneous hemorrhage. Abe was confirmed dead at 5.03pm.
Abe was the longest-serving Japanese Prime Minister in history. He stepped down as leader in 2020, citing health reasons.
For years he suffered from ulcerative colitis, a disease that inflames the bowels. Concerns about Abe’s health began the summer of 2020 and grew when he visited a Tokyo hospital two weeks in a row for unspecified health checkups.
He has had the condition since he was a teenager.
“It is gut-wrenching to have to leave my job before accomplishing my goals,” he said.
Abe, pronounced dead at 5:03 p.m. local time, the hospital official said.
He and wife Akie Abe married to Shinzo Abe in1987 and the couple has no children.
Akie works as a radio DJ. In regard to never having children, she called it fate. She saidsaid, “I think it is all fate and I have to accept it – the fact that I married a politician, that he became prime minister and that we were not blessed with children”.
