JK Rowling has revealed that police are involved following a death threat on Twitter after sending her support to Sir Salman Rushdie.
The Harry Potter author, 57, was reacting to the news of Sir Salman's stabbing whilst he was on stage when he was preparing to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution near Buffalo in New York state on Friday. The Indian-born British author was put on a ventilator in hospital after suffering serious injuries.
According to police, Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen before being taken to hospital. British-American writer Aatish Taseer wrote on Twitter on Saturday that Sir Salman was "off the ventilator and talking (and joking)" before swiftly deleting the social media post, only for it to be confirmed by the 75-year-old's agent Andrew Wylie.
