Japan pm shot dead

Read more National broadcaster NHK said a man in his 40s had been arrested for attempted murder and a gun had been confiscated from him, citing police sources. The former leader had been delivering a stump speech at an event ahead of Sunday's upper house elections when the apparent sound of gunshots was heard, NHK and the Kyodo news agency said. "He was giving a speech and a man came from behind," a young woman at the scene told NHK. "The first shot sounded like a toy. He didn't fall and there was a large bang. The second shot was more visible, you could see the spark and smoke," she added. "After the second shot, people surrounded him and gave him cardiac massage." Abe, 67, collapsed and was bleeding from the neck, a source from his ruling Liberal Democratic Party told the Jiji news agency. Neither the LDP nor local police were able to immediately confirm the reports. NHK and Kyodo both reported Abe was taken to hospital and appeared to be in cardo-respiratory arrest -- a term used in Japan indicating no vital signs, and generally preceding a formal certification of death by a coroner. Several media outlets reported that he appeared to have been shot from behind, possibly with a shotgun. The government said a task force had been formed in the wake of the incident and the top government spokesman was expected to speak shortly. Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, held office in 2006 for one year and again from 2012 to 2020, when he was forced to step down due to th...

TOKYO, June 14 (Reuters) - Japanese police arrested an 18-year-old soldier on Wednesday after he shot and killed two instructors and injured a third at a military firing range in central Japan, the country's defence ministry said. The incident at about 9 a.m (24:00 GMT) in Gifu City was the first such fatal shooting at a Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF) firing range since 1984, GSDF Chief of Staff General Yasunori Morishita told reporters. The three instructors, which public broadcaster NHK said included a man in his 50s and two in their 20s, were taken to hospital where two died, Morishita said. The alleged shooter, who is in police custody, joined the GSDF in April, he added. "We will investigate the cause of the incident to ensure that it doesn't happen again," Morishita said at a media briefing. Shootings are extremely rare in Japan, where gun ownership is tightly regulated, and anyone seeking to own a gun must go through rigorous background checks. Last year there were four gun deaths in Japan, according to the National Police Agency. Among them was former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot and killed with a The SDF deaths on Wednesday come after a military helicopter crashed with 10 crew members on board in the sea off an island in the southern prefecture of Okinawa in April. About Reuters • About Reuters , opens new tab • Careers , opens new tab • Reuters News Agency , opens new tab • Brand Attribution Guidelines , opens new tab • Reuters Leadership , opens new...

Two men were shot dead and a third injured when a Japanese Self-Defense Force candidate allegedly opened fire on fellow personnel on Wednesday during training at a gun range in Gifu, central Japan. The alleged attacker, an 18-year-old male Self-Defense Force candidate, was arrested on the scene on suspicion of attempted murder. Ground Self-Defense Force officials say the suspect fired an automatic rifle at three people during a training session for new recruits at the GSDF's Hino firing range. The victims were rushed to hospital, where doctors confirmed that one had died. The Defense Ministry later announced that a second victim had also died. Fire-fighting authorities say the three people targeted in the alleged attack were a man in his 50s and two men in their 20s. Self-Defense Force candidates are required to take a three-month education and training course before being admitted. Defense Ministry officials say the training session where the alleged attack took place began at around 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday. The incident happened soon after. The site is managed by the GSDF's 10th division, which has its headquarters in the central Japanese city Nagoya.

• Wildfire smoke blankets upper Midwest, forecast to head east • Trump golf course criminal investigation closed, Westchester D.A. says • Supreme Court rejects challenges to Indian Child Welfare Act, leaving law intact • U.S. man arrested over fatal attack on tourists near castle in Germany • Texas sends bus carrying more than 40 migrants to Los Angeles • Taking drugs like Adderall without ADHD decreases productivity, study finds • Man charged in mother's 2016 killing at sea dies awaiting trial • Amazon jungle crash survivors recovering as soldiers search for rescue dog • Live Nation's hidden ticket fees will no longer be hidden, company says • • Shows • Live • Local • More • • Latest • Video • Photos • Podcasts • In Depth • Local • Global Thought Leaders • Innovators & Disruptors • • Log In • Newsletters • Mobile • RSS • CBS Store • Paramount+ • Join Our Talent Community • Davos 2023 • Search • Search • An 18-year-old army trainee shot three fellow soldiers at a firing range on a Japanese army base Wednesday, killing two of them, officials said. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at the scene in the Gifu prefecture in central Japan, police said. The suspect fired a rifle at other soldiers during a shooting exercise at the Hino Kihon firing range, police said. Among the three wounded is a 25-year-old soldier, police said. The Ground Self Defense Force, Japan's army, confirmed that two of those wounded were later pronounced dead at a hospital. A numbe...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, after he was shot on Friday in the western Japanese city of Nara. He was 67. Hospital officials at the Nara Medical University told local reporters after the shooting that the former Japanese leader arrived at 12:20 p.m. without any vital signs. He reportedly lost a lot of blood from his gunshot wounds. Hospital authorities did a blood transfusion and tried to resuscitate him, before he was declared dead at 5:03 p.m. Current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the attack in the “harshest words possible.” Abe, Japan’s longest serving prime minister since World War II and perhaps the most prominent politician in the world’s third-largest economy, held office from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He resigned in 2020, citing Kyodo News/AP In video footage circulating on social media, Abe is speaking in front of a crowd of a few hundred people near the Yamato-Sadaiji train station in Nara when a loud bang is heard from behind him and a cloud of apparent gun smoke can be seen. Abe does not move after the first shot, but as the camera pans away and people begin to scream, a second gunshot is heard. A reporter for NHK said she heard what sounded like two gunshots, and Nara is the landlocked capital of Nara Prefecture—located 235 miles northeast of Tokyo. The suspect has been identified as a resident of Nara prefecture in his early 40s, Tobias Harris, a longtime Japan watcher based in Washington, D.C. who wrote a biogr...