Salman Rushdie on ventilator after being stabbed at New York event – video report

The author Salman Rushdie remains on a ventilator after being attacked on stage at an event in western New York state on Friday morning. Rushdie, whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses led to a fatwa issued by supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, was stabbed in the neck and torso as he was about to give a lecture. Authorities later identified the man suspected of stabbing Rushdie as 24-year-old Hadi Matar of Fairview, New Jersey, who had bought a pass to the event.

Authorities identify man suspected of stabbing Rushdie