BREAKING NEWS: Here is How Salman Rushdie’s Tragic Stabbing Unfolded in Front of His Audience as Masked Knifeman Jumped on Stage and Stabbed Rushdie up to Fifteen Times; as it Now Emerges, He is on a Ventilator and May Lose an Eye if Not His Life From His Horrific Injuries
Sir Salman Rushdie was undergoing emergency surgery last night and will ‘likely lose an eye’ after being stabbed up to 15 times in the neck in front of a horrified audience in America.
The celebrated author, who has faced Islamist death threats for three decades after writing The Satanic Verses, was knifed by an attacker who came out of the audience as he was about to give a lecture in western New York state.
After being helped from the stage, Rushdie was rushed to hospital by air ambulance and put on a ventilator, with severed nerves in one arm and damage to his liver and the outlook grim for one of his eyes, according to his agent.
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