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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Aide to Senator Rand Paul critically wounded in Washington DC stabbing

Rand Paul: ‘I ask you to join [wife] Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions.
Rand Paul thanked first responders, hospital staff and police and said he was ‘praying for a speedy and complete recovery’. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

A member of Senator Rand Paul’s staff was stabbed and critically wounded in Washington on Saturday in an attack that is likely to raise fears about violence in the nation’s capital.

“This past weekend a member of my staff was brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington DC,” the Kentucky senator said in a statement to ABC News late Monday. “I ask you to join [wife] Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions” after the stabbing.

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