Opposition chief stabbed

Close shave: Lee getting helped onto a stretcher after being airlifted by helicopter at a heliport in Seoul, South Korea. — AFP

SEOUL: South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern city of Busan and was airlifted to Seoul after receiving emergency treatment, party and emergency officials said.

Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election, was conscious and was flown to Seoul National University Hospital in the capital, after a man attacked him as he was moving among a crowd of supporters and journalists at a public event yesterday.