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Trump leaves hospital after assassination attempt at rally

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Donald Trump has returned to his home in New Jersey after he was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally on Saturday.

Shots rang out as he was speaking at the event in Pennsylvania, sparking panic in the crowd as Secret Service agents swarmed the former president.

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Trump, who emerged with a bloodied face, says he was shot in the ear, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a “bullet ripping through skin”.

The FBI has identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – he was shot and killed by the Secret Service.

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One spectator was killed at the rally and two others were critically injured.

A witness told the BBC they saw a man with a rifle crawling on a roof before shots rang out.

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President Joe Biden has condemned the assassination attempt, calling on all Americans to denounce such “sick” violence.

 

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-BBC.

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