Author Salman Rushdie on Ventilator and Will Likely Lose an Eye After Onstage Stabbing
"The news is not good," the agent said. "Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged."
Rushdie, 75, took to the stage at an event for the Chautauqua Institution in New York on Aug. 12. Soon after he arrived, a 24-year-old man allegedly jumped on stage and stabbed the novelist at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen, according to MajorSeveral staff and audience members got the suspect onto the ground and a trooper took him into custody, police said.
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