Salman Rushdie on ventilator after attack

By Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Allen
Updated August 13 2022 - 9:53am, first published 9:49am
A man is restrained following the New York stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie. (AP PHOTO)
A man is restrained following the New York stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie. (AP PHOTO)

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, has been stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state and airlifted to hospital.

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