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Rushdie Tells Trial Of 'Lake Of Blood' After Stabbing

Prosecutor District Attorney Jason Schmidt told how Rushdie had just taken his seat in the amphitheater before he was attacked (Credit: AFP)

Novelist Salman Rushdie described Tuesday the moment a knife-wielding attacker stormed on stage and attempted to kill him with a frenzied attack that left him blind in one eye.

"The Satanic Verses" author told jurors at the trial of his alleged attacker, 23-year-old American-Lebanese Hadi Matar, that Matar "was stabbing and slashing" at him.

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