銃撃現場の献花台撤去　大勢が安倍氏悼む―奈良

　安倍晋三元首相が銃撃され死亡した事件で、現場となった奈良市の近鉄大和西大寺駅前に設けられた献花台が１９日、撤去された。現場で安倍氏の応援演説を受けた自民党の佐藤啓参院議員の秘書によると、１８日までに約１０万人が献花台を訪れ、安倍氏を悼んだという。
　献花台は事件が起きた８日の夜に設置され、花を手向けようと多くの人が列をつくった。撤去作業は１９日午前８時ごろから始まり、約４０分で終了した。
　大阪市のアルバイト木下早和子さん（４１）は撤去を知り献花に訪れたといい、「実際に現場に来てみると、涙が出てきてしまう」と話した。
　撤去後はコーン標識が置かれ、「お花やお供えなどは、故人へのお気持ちと共にお持ち帰りください」との紙が貼られていた。（2022/07/19-11:04）

An altar for flowers installed near the site of the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the western Japan city of Nara was taken down Tuesday.
   According to the secretary of Kei Sato, a House of Councillors lawmaker for whom Abe was delivering a stump speech at the time of the incident, some 100,000 people visited the altar through Monday to mourn Abe.
   The altar was set up in front of Kintetsu Railway Co.'s Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara on the night of July 8, after the shooting earlier that day. People formed lines to pray and lay flowers for Abe.
   Removal work began at 8 a.m. Tuesday (11 p.m. Monday GMT) and took about 40 minutes.
   "I cried after actually coming to this site," Sawako Kinoshita, 41, a part-time worker from the western city of Osaka, said. She visited the altar to offer flowers after learning that it would be taken down.