INS Monitoring Desk
Srinagar,25 October:
YSR congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy was injured in a knife attack on Thursday near the VIP lounge at Visakhapatnam International Airport on Thursday,25 October ,reports The Times of India.
Reddy had reached the airport to board a scheduled flight to Hyderabad .As,he was nearing the VIP lounge ,a man identified by police as Srinivas ,a worker at the food joint in the airport ,approached Reddy to offer him a cup of coffee,according to Malla Vijay Prasad ,the president of the YSRCP in Vishakapatnam .Srinivas suddenly whipped out a blade and lunged at Reddy .However,Reddy deflected the blade with his hand ,and suffered an injury on his shoulder.
Srinivas was overpowered by YSRCP workers ,and handed over to the police at the airport.
While as, Reddy was administered first aid and later boarded his flight to Hyderabad where he will be consulting a doctor there.
Reddy is the leader of oppositon in the Andhra Pradesh assembly and is the son of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy.
