The crowd tackled the attacker and Mr Rushdie was then treated onstage after the attack.
New York:
Salman Rushdie suffered multiple stab wounds, including one to the right side of his neck, and lay in a pool of blood under his body after being attacked at an event on Friday, according to a doctor helping the Mumbai-born controversial author. after the brutal attack.
Rushdie was assaulted and stabbed in the neck Friday while onstage in western New York’s Chautauqua, New York police said.
“Rita Landman, an endocrinologist who was in the audience, walked onstage to offer help after the talk. She said Mr. Rushdie had multiple stab wounds, including one on the right side of his neck, and that there was a pool of blood underneath. his body, but she said he appeared to be alive and not receiving CPR,” DailyExpertNews reported.
“People said, ‘He’s got a heartbeat, he’s got a heartbeat, he’s got a heartbeat,'” the report quoted Landman as saying.
Mr Rushdie, who won the Booker Prize for his novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, was seen on stage with blood on his hands. The crowd tackled the attacker and Mr Rushdie was then treated onstage after the attack.
State Police are investigating an attack on author Salman Rushdie ahead of a speaking engagement at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY. On August 12, 2022, at approximately 11 a.m., a male suspect ran onto the stage and attacked Mr. Rushdie and an interviewer,” the New York Police Department said in a statement.
David Graves, 78, who was seated in the center of the amphitheater, said Rushdie was still seated when the attacker reached the stage and flew at him. “Things unfolded in seconds,” he told the DailyExpertNews.
Roger Warner of Cleveland, Ohio, was sitting in the front row of the amphitheater with his wife when Mr. Rushdie was attacked.
Warner said he saw a tall, slender man jump onto the stage from the left and begin to attack Salman Rushdie. He thought the man had punched Rushdie in the face three or four times. Then he saw the blood.
“He was covered in blood and there was blood on the floor. I just saw blood around his eyes and down his cheek,” Warner said in the report.
Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Islamic civil rights group, said he feared people would rush to blame Muslims or Islam for the stabbing before the identity or motive was revealed. of the attacker was publicly known. “Muslim Americans, like all Americans, condemn any violence directed against anyone in our society,” he said.
A suspect was arrested at the scene and has been taken into custody, New York State Police said.
Mr Rushdie, the author of 14 novels, was knighted in 2007 for his services to literature.
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