NEW YORK CITY: United Kingdom novelist Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after an Iranian fatwa ordered his killing, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye after he was stabbed at a literary event in New York state on Friday (Saturday in Manila).

The author of The Satanic Verses, which sparked fury among some Muslims who believed it was blasphemous, had to be airlifted to the hospital for emergency surgery following the attack.

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