Friday’s attack on iconic writer, Salmon Rushdie is taking a fiercer toll on his health.
According to a BBC report, he is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed on stage in the US, his agent says.
Andrew Wylie said that the author, 75, may lose one eye after the attack at an event in New York state.
Mr Rushdie went into hiding with police protection in the UK in 1988 after Iran’s top leader called for his murder over his novel, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims deemed blasphemous.
Police detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.
New York State Police said the suspect ran onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.
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Mr Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen, authorities said. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.
Author Salman Rushdie, 75, has been stabbed on stage at an event in New York state
Eyewitnesses say he was struck many times by an attacker wearing a mask
Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and abdomen
Police say the suspect has been identified as Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old from New Jersey
Members of the audience intervened to stop and detain the attacker, officers say
Officials say they assessed security and a state trooper was on the premises to make the arrest
The author remains in surgery, which has been ongoing for a number of hours
Rushdie faced death threats and went into hiding for nearly a decade after his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988
