NARA -- The site where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was attacked during a speech in this western Japan city has turned into chaos.
Abe was giving a campaign speech for a ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDP candidate in the July 10 House of Councillors election at a site north of Kintetsu Railway Co.'s Yamato-Saidaiji Station on the morning of July 8 when he was apparently shot.
According to a woman who was at a cafe near the scene, many people rushed into nearby buildings after hearing suspected gunshots. It sounded like a shotgun, and I heard people shouting, 'Where's an AED automated external defibrillator He was taken away in an ambulance, she said.
A staff member at the LDP's Nara prefectural chapter told the Mainichi Shimbun, An acquaintance called the office saying that former Prime Minister Abe had been attacked, and I couldn't believe what I was hearing.