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Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, dead after being shot

FILE PHOTO: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the construction completion ceremony of the New National Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Pool via REUTERS

Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday.

Abe, 67, had been delivering a stump speech near a train station in the western city of Nara when he was shot by an assailant.

(Reporting by Tokyo Bureau; Editing by David Dolan and Mark Heinrich)

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