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BREAKING:

Salman Rushdie is attacked onstage in Western New York.

The author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding and under police protection after Iranian officials called for his execution, was attacked and stabbed in the neck on Friday while onstage in Chautauqua, near Erie in western New York, the state police said.

The attack, which shook the literary world, happened at about 11 a.m., shortly after Mr. Rushdie, 75, took the stage for a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution, a community in western New York that offers arts and literary programming during the summer.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08...?smid=tw-share