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Imran Khan shot: What is the situation?

The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been shot and wounded in the leg.

Mr Khan was attacked while taking part in a protest march from Lahore to Islamabad to demand new, early elections.

Video footage shows Mr Khan and his supporters riding on top of a shipping container towed by a lorry before a burst of gunfire is heard.

Another video shows a conscious Mr Khan with a bandage on his right leg being taken away in a vehicle after the shooting.

"This was an attempt to kill him, to assassinate him," Mr Khan's senior aide Raoof Hasan told AFP.

The 成人快手's Sahar Baloch explains what we know about the shooting.

(Photo: Imran Khan being put into a car after being shot and wounded in the leg, 3 November 2022. Credit: Reuters)

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