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Kishida explained: "I pray that the former prime minister remains Shinzo Abe Alive".
He added: "It is a barbaric act during the electoral campaign that forms the basis of democracy. An act that is absolutely unforgivable and I condemn it in the strongest terms".
Officials said that Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering a campaign speech, Friday, in western Japan and was airlifted to a hospital, but he was not breathing and his heart stopped working.
Local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said Abe was in cardiac arrest after being shot and taken to a hospital in the prefecture.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that the police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene.
Matsuno said that "Such a barbaric act is completely unforgivable, whatever the reasons, and we strongly condemn it".
and broadcast Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Footage shows Abby being killed in the street, while several security guards ran towards him.
He was reportedly shot a few minutes after he began speaking outside a major train station in western Nara.
was the prime minister Fumio KishidaMatsuno, who belongs to the same political party as Abe, is on his way to Tokyo by helicopter from his election destination Yamagata in northern Japan, and Matsuno said all government ministers will return to Tokyo from their election trips.
In another clip, campaign officials surround him to address the popular and still influential former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Elections for the Japanese Senate, the least powerful chamber of the Japanese parliament, is taking place on Sunday.
Abe was giving a speech when people heard gunshots. He was clutching his chest as he collapsed, his shirt stained with blood, but he managed to speak before losing consciousness.
The attack came as a shock in a country that is one of the safest in the world and has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
The Yomiuri Shimbun published additional editions, which were quickly grabbed by people on the street to read about the shooting.
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Kishida explained, “I pray that the former prime minister remains Shinzo Abe Alive”.
He added, “It is a barbaric act during the electoral campaign that forms the basis of democracy. It is absolutely unforgivable and I condemn it in the strongest terms.”
Officials said that Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while delivering a campaign speech, Friday, in western Japan and was airlifted to a hospital, but he was not breathing and his heart stopped working.
Local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said Abe was in cardiac arrest after being shot and taken to a hospital in the prefecture.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters that the police arrested the suspected gunman at the scene.
“An act of barbarism like this is completely unforgivable, whatever the reasons, and we strongly condemn it,” Matsuno said.
and broadcast Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Footage shows Abby being killed in the street, while several security guards ran towards him.
He was reportedly shot a few minutes after he began speaking outside a major train station in western Nara.
was the prime minister Fumio KishidaMatsuno, who belongs to the same political party as Abe, is on his way to Tokyo by helicopter from his election destination Yamagata in northern Japan, and Matsuno said all government ministers will return to Tokyo from their election trips.
In another clip, campaign officials surround him to address the popular and still influential former leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Elections for the Japanese Senate, the least powerful chamber of the Japanese parliament, is taking place on Sunday.
Abe was giving a speech when people heard gunshots. He was clutching his chest as he collapsed, his shirt stained with blood, but he managed to speak before losing consciousness.
The attack came as a shock in a country that is one of the safest in the world and has some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
The Yomiuri Shimbun published additional editions, which were quickly grabbed by people on the street to read about the shooting.