Updated at 11:43am with confirmation Maltese PM tweetFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being shot at a public event in the city of Nara, local media report. This is the moment Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe got shot. "[I am ] saddened by the attack on Japan’s longest-serving PM Shinzo Abe. Saddened by the attack on Japan’s longest-serving PM Shinzo Abe. In 2018, he had received Joseph Muscat, then Prime Minister, in Tokyo for the second Malta – Japan Summit.