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

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