China News Service, July 8. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed during a speech in Nara City on the 8th.

According to reports, Abe was shot and is currently in a coma with cardiopulmonary arrest.

  NHK reporters at the scene heard gunshot-like sounds and saw Abe bleeding.

  There are also preliminary reports that he may have been injured.