From Indira Gandhi to JFK: Heads of state, world leaders who have been assassinated | World News

The deadly taking pictures of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe throughout a marketing campaign speech on Friday in western Japan has once more introduced into focus the assassination of a number of heads of state and prime leaders globally, together with two from India.

Abe shared a particular bond with India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his dying, saying, "At this time, the entire of India mourns with Japan and we stand in solidarity with our Japanese brothers and sisters on this tough second."

He introduced that as a mark of India's deepest respect, a one-day nationwide mourning shall be noticed on July 9.

Abe, 67, was shot from behind minutes after he began his speech in Nara on Friday. He was airlifted to a hospital for emergency remedy. He was later pronounced useless regardless of emergency remedy. Police arrested the suspected gunman on the scene of the assault which shocked many in Japan.

India had in 1984 mourned the dying of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who was assassinated by two of her safety guards. Her son and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi too was assassinated in 1991.

Indira Gandhi, who had earned the moniker of 'Iron Girl', was shot by her safety guards on the morning of October 31, 1984, when she had simply left her official residence at 1, Safdarjung Highway in Delhi. The constructing now's a memorial.

She was taken to AIIMS however docs couldn't revive India's first lady prime minister whose life had impressed girls internationally, and several other mother and father had even named their daughters after her.

On that fateful day, the nation was so stuffed with grief that even many professional information anchors could not assist feeling emotionally overwhelmed.

Veteran TV anchor Salma Sultan, in an interview with PTI, had termed studying the information of her assassination as maybe probably the most tough project of her profession.

Indira Gandhi's son Rajiv Gandhi, who took the mantle of prime minister after her dying and served within the put up until 1989, was assassinated on the evening of Might 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu by a lady suicide bomber at an election rally.

Amongst different heads of state around the globe who've been assassinated, embody leaders from Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the US.

Lincoln, the sixteenth US president who led the nation by the American Civil Struggle, was fatally shot by John Wilkes Sales space, an American stage actor at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. The theatre has been preserved as a heritage web site.

John F Kennedy, fondly referred to by his nickname 'JFK' was the thirty fifth president of the US from 1961 till his assassination on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, was arrested for the assassination, however he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later.

Bangladesh, a rustic India helped liberate, noticed the assassination of its beloved Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975, in Dhaka.

Rahman, the primary President and later the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from April 1971 till his assassination, was killed together with most of his members of the family. Bangladesh president Ziaur Rahman was assassinated in Chittagong in Might 1981.

In Pakistan, one serving prime minister and one former have been assassinated.

Liaquat Ali Khan, born in Karnal in undivided India, served as the primary prime minister of Pakistan from 1947-51. He was assassinated on October 16, 1951, when he was addressing a gathering at Firm Bagh in Rawalpindi. The backyard was later renamed Liaqat Bagh in his honour.

Rawalpindi witnessed the assassination of one other Pakistani chief in 2007. Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide assault in Rawalpindi shortly after she had addressed an election rally on December 27, 2007.

She was attacked after a rally in Liaquat Bagh and delivered to the hospital the place she was pronounced useless. In line with a 2014 report in Daybreak, the Rawalpindi Central Hospital the place she had died, was renamed after Benazir Bhutto after her assassination.

In Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was president between 1989 to 1993, was assassinated in 1993.

In line with the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty web site, on March 12, 2003, Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in Belgrade by a sniper.

In Nepal, the assassination of the royals shook the nation and the world. King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and a few members of the royal household have been shot useless by his son on June 1, 2001.

King Birendra, who performed an energetic function within the institution of the South Asian Affiliation for Regional Co-operation, ascended the throne on January 31, 1972, following the dying of his father and dominated Nepal for 3 a long time, first as an absolute monarch and from 1990, as a constitutional monarch.