Former Pakistan PM shot in alleged assassination attempt
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Former Pakistan PM shot in alleged assassination attempt

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been injured in an apparent assassination attempt.

The ex-cricketer was travelling in a large protest convoy when shots ran out.

CNN reported one person was killed, while several others were wounded, including Khan.

The alleged shooter was arrested not long after the incident occurred.

Several in his convoy were wounded in the attack in Wazirabad, nearly 200 km (120 miles) from the capital. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said a suspect had been arrested.

"It was a clear assassination attempt. Khan was hit but he's stable. There was a lot of bleeding," Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesperson for Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, told Reuters.

"If the shooter had not been stopped by people there, the entire PTI leadership would have been wiped out."

Another Khan aide, Asad Umar, said doctors had told him that their leader was out of danger.