Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at a literary event in New York, US, on Friday. The 75-year-old author is on ventilator and could lose an eye. Police have identified his attacker.
The author’s agent said that Salman Rushdie suffered severed nerves in an arm and damage to his liver, and could lose an eye. “The news is not good,” Andrew Wylie, his agent, wrote in an email. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.”
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Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old resident of Fairview, New Jersey was named by police as the suspect. According to a ‘The New York Post’ report, citing law enforcement sources, the suspect sympathised with the Iranian government, which had called for Rushdie’s death.
While briefing the reporters, New York State Police Commander Eugene Staniszewski said, “We don’t have any indication of a motive at this time.”
“At this point, we’re assuming he was alone,” he said adding, “we’re looking to make sure that that was the case.”
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