Jurors heard how a knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie unfolded in a matter of seconds at a 2022 New York talk and how close he came to death, in the prosecutor's opening statement on Monday at the trial of the man accused of trying to murder the author.

Salman Rushdie appeared in court on Tuesday to testify in the trial of the man who is accused of trying to murder him on stage at a talk in western New York in 2022. “It occurred to me that I was dying.

Salman Rushdie provided testimony against Hadi Matar, who is accused of attempting to murder him in a 2022 knife attack. Rushdie described the harrowing incident, recalling the pain and the near-fatal injuries he sustained.