Assassination of Shinzo Abe
On 8 July 2022, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan and serving member of the Japanese House of Representatives, was assassinated while speaking at a political event... Wikipedia
- Location: near Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan
- Date: July 8, 2022, c. 11:30 am (JST)
- Target: Shinzo Abe
- Attack type: by shooting
- Weapons: Improvised firearm
- Deaths: 1 (Shinzo Abe)
- Motive: Grudge against the Unification Church, with which Abe was connected
- Accused: Tetsuya Yamagami
- Data source: DuckDuckGo