FORMER Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died after being brutally shot twice in a bloody assassination on Friday.

National broadcaster NHK aired footage showing Abe, 67, collapsing on the street in Nara, Japan, clutching his blood-smeared chest as several security guards ran toward him.

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Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, 67, dead after being shot twice with homemade shotgun during speech in bloody assassination
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