My cameraman Duncan Sharp and I had been sitting contained in the container Imran Khan was on high of once we instantly heard screams.
There was numerous commotion and a few of Khan’s senior crew got here dashing down a slender spiral staircase trying surprised. It was very unclear what had occurred, however there was sheer terror in folks’s eyes.
Then a tall man, I’d seen on the container, got here down with a really bloodied foot.
The music that had been blaring out of the audio system fell silent. We might hear a girl’s screams from upstairs. Then instantly, extra of Khan’s senior crew emerged.
They had been telling us to get off the container instantly. There was concern the shooter was nonetheless on board. But at that stage, it was so unclear if there have been threats outdoors. We did not hear any gunfire.
At that stage, it was not identified if folks had been stabbed or shot.
The door flew open and we had been confronted with a panicked-looking crowd.
Some had been shouting, “Imran Khan is dead”.
Others had been asking, “Is he dead, is he dead?”
Armed police began working in direction of us. Ambulances had been screeching into the realm. I noticed one bloodied man carried into the ambulance after which one other. I didn’t hear gunfire, however the music was so loud it could have been laborious to.
As we walked to attempt to shelter ourselves, I noticed a health care provider. He advised me he’d handled two of the wounded.
One stated he had been wounded within the hip, however each had been in steady situation.
As I emerged from the hospital, certainly one of Khan’s senior crew tried to usher us right into a automotive.
She stated Imran Khan had been taken to hospital and had been shot within the left leg. We perceive he’s being handled in Lahore.
Faisal Javed, the chief of the Mr Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration, was additionally among the many injured. We noticed his bloodied face on video – a video shared with us by the PTI.
In it he says: “I have been informed that Imran Khan and another party worker were injured and one party member has died. I am praying for all the injured, especially Imran Khan.”
Two hours earlier than Imran Khan had sat down for a prolonged interview with me and insisted he was hopeful there wouldn’t be violence on his Long March which started six days in the past in Lahore, a week-long march by way of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab, to the capital Islamabad.
He advised me “the genie was out of the bottle,” and that folks wished dramatic change within the nation; that they had been sick of the monetary instability and corruption in Pakistan and that he was assured he might put sufficient strain on the federal government by way of this march to carry an early election.
Sadly, moments later, he was instantly within the eye of the storm. Facing the very violence he had hoped to keep away from.
Source: information.sky.com”