{"id":47613,"date":"2022-07-08T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=47613"},"modified":"2022-07-08T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:31:20","slug":"former-japan-pm-abe-dies-after-being-shot-at-stump-speech-in-nara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/07\/08\/former-japan-pm-abe-dies-after-being-shot-at-stump-speech-in-nara\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Japan PM Abe dies after being shot at stump speech in Nara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is dead after being shot on Friday while delivering a stump speech in the western city of Nara two days ahead of a national election, a ruling party source was quoted as saying by Kyodo News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan&#8217;s longest-serving leader was attacked by a 41-year-old man from behind at around 11:30 a.m. when he was speaking in front of Kintetsu Railway&#8217;s Yamato-Saidaiji Station, police said, adding he collapsed to the ground after two shots were heard. He was rushed to hospital with blood seen on his shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has condemned the shooting of the 67-year-old former leader &#8220;in the strongest possible terms,&#8221; saying such a barbaric act should never be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is dead after being shot on Friday while delivering a stump speech in the western city of Nara two days ahead of a national election, a ruling party source was quoted as saying by Kyodo News. Japan&#8217;s longest-serving leader was attacked by a 41-year-old man from behind at around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47615,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613\/revisions\/47615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}