Live Outside Tokyo Temple Amid Wake Ceremony for Assassinated ex-PM Shinzo Abe

© AFP 2023 / CHARLY TRIBALLEAUA hearse transporting the body of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe arrives at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on July 11, 2022.
A hearse transporting the body of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe arrives at Zojoji Temple in Tokyo on July 11, 2022.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 11.07.2022
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The 67-year-old politician was shot on Friday in the city of Nara. A suspect, former Japanese Navy sailor Yamagami Tetsuya, shot Abe twice with a handmade gun. Abe was rushed to a local hospital suffering from heart and collapsed lungs, and succumbed to his wounds later in the day.
Sputnik is live from Shiba Park outside Zojoji Temple in Tokyo, as a memorial ceremony is held, commemorating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated last week. The funeral for the ex-PM is scheduled on Tuesday.
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