Japanese police find bullet marks near site of Shinzo Abe’s shooting

Police inspect a pavement near the site where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was fatally shot in Nara (Kyodo News/AP)

Japanese police said they have found a number of suspected bullet marks on a building near the site of former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s fatal shooting.

They are apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect’s powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Mr Abe.