Donald Trump injured but safe after shooting at election rally, gunman and spectator killed
The episode was being investigated as an assassination attempt on the former president, the United States authorities said.
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Former United States President Donald Trump was injured in an apparent assassination attempt on Saturday, reported AP citing two unidentified law enforcement officials.
The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential candidate was whisked away to safety by the Secret Service and rushed to a hospital after shots rang out at his poll rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at around 6.10 pm.
There appeared to be blood on Trump’s face as he was evacuated.
The shooter, who was not an attendee at the rally, was killed by Secret Service agents, reported AP.
One spectator was killed while two others were injured in the shooting.
“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” Trump later said in a statement on social media. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place.”
The attack marks the most serious attempt to assassinate a United States president or presidential candidate since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan survived a shooting in Washington DC.
“There’s no place in America for this type of violence,” said President Joe Biden, who is expected to run against Trump in the United States presidential elections in November. “It’s sick. It’s sick.”
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