Shinzo Abe Was Critically Shot During The Speech The Suspect Was Arrested
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an arch-conservative and one of the country’s most divisive figures, was shot and seriously wounded during a campaign speech on Friday in western Japan. He was airlifted to a hospital, but officials said he was not breathing and his heart had stopped. Police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene of the shocking attack in a country that is among the safest in the world and has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere....