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Learnt about plan to kill me a day before, was hit by 4 bullets: Imran Khan

He said the failed assassination attempt against him will push the people of Pakistan to take to the streets like in Sri Lanka

People stage a protest in Wazirabad, where Imran Khan was shot at 	reuters
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People stage a protest in Wazirabad, where Imran Khan was shot at reuters

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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said he was hit by four bullets on his right leg during the assassination attempt a day earlier, when he was leading a political march in Punjab province.

Addressing the nation from the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore — his first since the assassination attempt — Khan said he was aware of the plot to kill him. “I’ll come to the details of the attack later. I got to know the day before [the attack] that in Wazirabad or Gujrat, they planned to kill me,” the 70-year-old chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party

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