Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot at, taken to hospital bleeding after collapsing

NHK, a public broadcaster in Japan, reported on Friday that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was brought to the hospital after falling while giving a speech in the city of Nara in western Japan. Abe was bleeding and had to be taken to the hospital.

According to NHK, there was a sound that appeared to be a gunshot heard at the moment, and a male suspect was seized at the spot. During Prime Minister Abe's address, an NHK reporter who was present stated that they heard two bangs that occurred one after the other.

According to the first reports, he may have sustained an injury. According to reports from NHK WORLD News in Japan, a reporter from NHK who was there at the scene heard what sounded like a gunshot and saw Abe bleeding.