8 Jul 2022

Japan ex-PM Shinzo Abe shot in apparent assassination attempt

From Checkpoint, 5:18 pm on 8 July 2022

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been shot in an apparent assassination attempt.

The 67-year-old was giving a speech on a street in the western city of Nara.

Witnesses say Abe, Japan's longest serving prime minister, was hit from behind and bleeding from the chest.

A man has been arrested at the scene. Tokyo correspondent Chris Gilbert talks to Lisa Owen.