World leaders expressed shock and grief at the loss of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo on Friday following his public assassination during a political rally.
Japan’s international news service NHK reported early in the morning that Abe, 67, was shot during a speech in the city of Nara, near Kyoto, while campaigning for candidates in the upcoming Upper House election. Reuters reported that a 41-year-old man named Yamagami Tetsuya was arrested following the shooting.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro released a statement following Abe’s death, calling him a “great friend of Brazil” and decreeing an official mourning period in the country of three days.
“I receive with extreme indignation and sorrow the news of the death of [Abe Shinzo], a brilliant leader and great friend of Brazil,” Bolsonaro wrote.
“I extend to Abe’s family, as well as to our Japanese brothers and sisters, my solidarity and the wish that God takes care of their souls in this moment of pain,” he said in part. “May your murder be severely punished. We are with Japan.”
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