VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-07-29
“I was on the stage, lying down, with an enormous pool of blood all around me,”
Sir Salman Rushdie · said date not stated · reported 2026-07-29
Sir Salman testified during the trial about being stabbed 15 times in the 2022 attack.
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