TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) – Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital after collapsing while delivering a speech in the western Japanese city of Nara, reports on Friday on the public television channel NHK.
A gunshot sound was heard and a suspect was arrested, NHK said. A journalist from the Japanese channel present at the scene said he heard two consecutive detonations as Shinzo Abe gave his speech.
Kyodo News reported that the former prime minister was unconscious and appeared to be in cardiac arrest.
(Report Chang-Ran Kim; French version Camille Raynaud)