Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe is showing no vital signs

AFP is now reporting the awful news that ex Japanese Prime Minister has been assassinated.

He is showing no vital signs according to the AFP report.

Abe was killed while giving a campaign speech ahead of the Japanese election this weekend.

Earlier, in order of posts of this horrible event:

• Japan media reports there have been shots fired in the vicinity of ex-PM Abe

• Ex Japanese Prime Minister Abe has been shot, taken to hospital

• The yen is up on the awful news that ex Japanese Prime Minister Abe has been shot

• Ex Japanese Prime Minister Abe shot - unconscious, unresponsive

Abe was Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007, and again from 2012 to 2020. Abe resigned in 2020 due to ill health.

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