Actor Saif Ali Khan stabbed: CCTV camera footage showed the suspected attacker scurrying down the stairs from the sixth floor of the Satguru Sharan building.
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was stabbed multiple times by an intruder in his highrise apartment in Mumbai’s Bandra around 2.30am on Thursday and rushed to hospital with the blade still lodged in his spine.
Saif Ali Khan, 54, who received six stab injuries, including in his neck, was out of danger, according to doctors, following an emergency surgery at the Lilavati Hospital where he was taken in an auto-rickshaw after the attack outside his younger son Jeh’s room.
The entire family – Saif Ali Khan, his wife and fellow star Kareena Kapoor, and their two sons – four-year-old Jeh and eight-year-old Taimur – were home in the 12-floor apartment along with their five house helps, news agency PTI reported. In a statement to the police, Jeh’s nanny Eliyama Philip, who first encountered the armed attacker, said he asked for ₹1 crore.
The intruder did not force his entry or break into the actor’s flat but possibly sneaked in at some point during the night with the intention of robbery, police officials said. The attacker, who made his escape through the stairs, remains on the run.
CCTV camera footage showed the suspected attacker, wearing a red scarf and carrying a backpack, scurrying down the stairs from the sixth floor of the Satguru Sharan building.
