🦍 former prime minister abe's death

✔️ former prime minister of japan shot

photo via getty images

the former prime minister of japan, shinzo abe, was assassinated at a campaign speech in the streets of nara, japan

he was shot by a man wielding a homemade firearm

✔️ significance

• the news put the country and the world in shock as:

  • abe was the longest serving prime minister in japanese history

  • jap…