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By EMMA JAMES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ADAM SOLOMONS FOR MAILONLINE
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Author Salman Rushdie has been airlifted to hospital after being stabbed multiple times in the neck on stage as he prepared to give a speech in upstate New York.
The writer, 75, was attacked as he was being introduced to the stage for the CHQ 2022 event in Chautauqua, near Buffalo, on Friday morning.
Witnesses claim that he was stabbed ten to fifteen times, as a man approached him from behind before rushing the stage.
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