Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe assassinated at campaign event

Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was killed after being shot Friday while delivering a speech, shocking a nation unaccustomed to gun violence.

The 67-year-old, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated while campaigning on behalf of the governing Liberal Democratic Party in the city of Nara, near Kyoto.

Gunshots were heard at around 11.30 a.m. local time, NBC reported, and Abe was taken to Nara Medical…