Rushdie’s attacker recognized; agent says writer on ventilator, could lose eye

New York, Aug 12 (EFE).- The suspect in Friday’s onstage stabbing of acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie at a literary occasion in upstate New York has been recognized as Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old man who has been taken into custody, a New York State Police spokesman mentioned at a press convention.

The alleged assailant is a resident of Fairview, New Jersey, the spokesman mentioned in Jamestown, a small metropolis within the southwestern a part of New York state the place Matar is being detained.

The Indian-born writer was stabbed not less than as soon as within the neck and as soon as within the stomach and stays in surgical procedure at a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, the place he had been airlifted hours earlier from the Chautauqua Establishment, a cultural middle positioned within the southwestern a part of New York state.

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