People gather and lay flowers in the Japanese city of Nara at the site where Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a gunman who opened fire at close range as the hugely influential politician delivered a campaign speech. "I can't believe it, the fact that a former prime minister was shot with a gun," says one mourner, university student Manata Yasuda. "It was absolutely shocking." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES