Salman Rushdie loses sight in the eye and uses one hand after a knife attack

Author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated after the brutal knife attack.

Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses” book, was stabbed in the neck and stomach on stage in front of a stunned audience by 24-year-old New Jersey resident Hadi Matar, a US national of Lebanese origin.

The attack on the 75-year-old Booker Prize-winning author came as he was getting ready to speak at a literary event at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York.