The Moment Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Was Shot At Campaign Rally.
- Khan has been leading a march since Friday from the city of Lahore towards the capital, Islamabad, campaigning for fresh elections after being ousted from office in April.
The former Prime Minister was injured in a shooting during his protest march. He was taken to a hospital in Lahore although his party officials say he was not seriously wounded but is out of danger.
A video of the incident showed Khan and his supporters ducking on top of a lorry that has been traveling as part of his days-long protest march from Lahore to Islamabad.
Multiple gunshots, including from an automatic rifle, are heard as the crowd panics.
Khan has been leading a march since Friday from the city of Lahore towards the capital, Islamabad, campaigning for fresh elections after being ousted from office in April.
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Khan was wounded when shots were fired from the crowd near Gujranwala, his senior aide, Raoof Hasan, told the news agency AFP.
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“This was an attempt to kill him, to assassinate him,” Hasan said, adding that one alleged attacker had been shot dead and a second was taken into police custody.
Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi posted a tweet in which he called it “a heinous assassination attempt”.
“I thank Allah that he is safe but injured with few bullets in his leg & hopefully non-critical,” he tweeted.
Pakistan has been grappling with Islamist militants for decades, and politicians are frequently targeted by assassination attempts.
In 2007 the nation’s first female leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack that still remains unsolved.
Each day during his so-called “long march” 70-year-old Khan has mounted a shipping container towed by a lorry, making speeches from the open top to crowds of thousands in cities and towns along the way.
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