Hospital sources: “Shinzo Abe” has no vital signs.
An official at Nara Hospital, where the former prime minister was taken after the assassination, said he was not showing any vital signs.
After Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was taken to the hospital after being assassinated by an armed person while giving a speech in Nara city, now there is news of his deteriorating condition.
An official at Nara Hospital, where 67-year-old Abe was taken after the assassination, told Reuters that he was not showing any vital signs.
Hospital sources say that the former Japanese prime minister is now in a state of “cardio-respiratory arrest” and the blood circulation in his veins has stopped. Cardio-respiratory arrest is the final stage of any critical physical condition, in which the patient will die if not treated immediately.
Japanese Defense Minister Nobu Kishi also announced that Abe is receiving continuous blood units due to the large amount of blood he lost after being assassinated.
The assailant told the Japanese police that he was unhappy with the performance of the former prime minister of Japan, that’s why he assassinated him. Japanese media also published this close-up image of the probably homemade weapon that Abe was targeted with.
Abe was shot in the right side of the neck and left clavicle and is now battling death, an official from the Nara City Fire and Emergency Department said.
Japanese media quoted the police as saying that the assailant told them that he tried to kill Abe because of a personal grudge against Abe’s political views.
Fumio Kishida, the current Prime Minister of Japan, while condemning Abe’s assassination, told reporters: “I want to believe that there was sufficient security [during Abe’s speech], but an investigation must be conducted to determine this issue.”
Ordering cabinet ministers to attend an emergency meeting, Kishida said: “Such an act of violence during an election campaign is unacceptable and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”
The office of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan in Nara city announced that the presence of the former prime minister of this country in today’s election campaign as a candidate for the upper house in next Sunday’s elections was confirmed last night, and the details were subsequently released to supporters.
