Shinzo Abe's party wins majority in polls held after his assassination

Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which is also Japan's ruling party, has bagged a majority in the parliamentary polls held two days after his assassination. LDP-Komeito coalition has secured 76 seats in the upper house of the parliament. Abe was campaigning for an LDP candidate in Nara city when he was shot dead on July 8.