Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Hospitalized, in Critical Condition After Being Shot

Showing no vital signs

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Aug. 28, 2020. Franck Robichon - Pool/Getty Images

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was taken to hospital after he was reportedly shot on Friday in Nara, a city in western Japan, and was said to have been in a critical condition.

Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, collapsed and appeared to have been shot in the chest around 11:30 a.m. local time near Yamato-Saidaiji Station.