Tokyo [Japan]: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe broke down in the western Japan city of Nara on Friday after being struck by an unknown guy and also gunshots were heard around, neighborhood media reported including that cops has seized the opponent.

Japan’s leading news agency Kyodo Information pointing out regional authorities reported that PM Abe was subconscious and also appeared to be revealing no essential indications.
Abe was assaulted by a guy from behind while he was making a stump speech on a road in Nara. Police has confiscated the man that struck Abe at around 11.30 am, The Japan Times reported.

According to preliminary records from Japanese public broadcaster, NHK, Shinzo Abe may have been possibly fired in the chest. A local press reporter on-site listened to something that seemed like a gunshot. The press reporter additionally saw Abe bleeding, media reports claimed.

Abe Shinzo, a Japanese political leader, became head of state of Japan two times, from 2006-07 as well as again from 2012-20.