The Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie is now undergoing surgery tonight after the attack today on a stage in northwest New York. Rushdie was there to give a lecture when a man ran onto the stage and stabbed him. The author was taken to hospital by helicopter and the attacker has been arrested.
– There happened to be four doctors in the audience who could go up on stage and help him until the ambulance arrived, says eyewitness Valerie Haskell.
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