Islamabad/Lahore: Pakistan's ex-premier Imran Khan said that four bullets hit him during the attack on Thursday. He addressed Pakistan from Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore on Friday and said that he was aware of the plot to kill him, PTI reported.
The ex-PM was fired when he was leading the "long march to Islamabad" in Punjab province. Five others were also injured along with him, while one person was reported dead.
"I'll come to the details of the attack later. I got to know the day before [the attack] that either in Wazirabad of Gujrat, they planned to kill me," the 70-year-old chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party claimed.
In his first address to the nation after the firing incident, he said, "I'll come to the details of the attack later. I got to know the day before [the attack] that either in Wazirabad of Gujrat, they planned to kill me."
The 70-year-old and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party stated, "I was hit by four bullets."
The cricketer-turned-politician is being treated by Dr Faisal Sultan, who said that x-rays of Khan's right leg showed that his tibia was damaged and fractured.
"In this scan, the line you see on the right leg is the main artery. The bullet fragments were very near it," Sultan said.
Imran Khan sustained a bullet injury on the right leg from the firing in which a man, who wielded a gun, fired a volley of bullets at him and others. The assailant fired at the container-mounted truck in which Khan was travelling before firing at him.