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Taiwan's president shot while campaigning on last day of election





TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwanese leader Chen Shui-bian was shot in the stomach Friday while campaigning on last day of the presidential election, a legislator travelling with the president said.

"The president suffered a deep wound - about three centimetres deep in the stomach," legislator Wang Hsing-nan told TVBS cable news. Wang said he was travelling in a car behind Chen's motorcade as it drove through the streets campaigning in the southern city of Tainan. "I was travelling in the vehicle behind the president when I suddenly saw his car accelerating," said Wang, a member of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party.

The Presidential Office said that it did not have enough information to discuss the incident.

TVBS cable news showed the convertible the president was riding in parked outside a Tainan hospital.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I met this guy while he was campaigning before his first election. Seemed a likable enough guy.

Hope he's ok...