The government of Nepal has decided to observe one-day national mourning on July 9 in honor of former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe who succumbed to bullet injuries on Friday.
A Cabinet meeting held today decided to observe the national mourning over the death of Abe tomorrow.
Abe died after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election in the Nara region on Friday.
He was rushed to a hospital but doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
Abe (67) was the longest-serving leader of Japan before he resigned for health reasons in 2020.
