'I have no words': Japanese PM saddened by Abe's death
STORY: “It is very unfortunate, and I have no words. I would like to express my condolences from the bottom of my heart,” a teary-eyed Kishida told media on Friday evening.
Kishida said Japan had lost a “great politician," adding that he was a “good friend of mine”.
The primary suspect in the shooting opened fire on Abe, 67, from behind with an apparently homemade gun as he spoke at a drab traffic island in Nara, Japanese media reported. Doctors struggled to save Abe but he died about five and a half hours after being shot.
It was the first assassination of a sitting or former Japanese premier since the days of pre-war militarism in the 1930s.
