Donald Trump says he has been shot in the ear at a political rally, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a “bullet ripping through skin”.
A male attacker was shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service after the apparent assassination attempt on Trump at the event in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The attacker killed one spectator at the rally, and two others are critically injured, according to the Secret Service.
A witness at the rally told BBC they saw a man with a rifle crawling on a nearby roof before the shots rang out.
Video shows Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender, drop to the ground and then stand up with blood on the side of his face.
US President Joe Biden spoke to his November election opponent Donald Trump, a White House official says, after the former president was injured in a shooting at a campaign rally today.
The White House official did not say what the two spoke about.
There are two patients at Allegheny General Hospital who were injured at the Trump rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania today, the hospital has said in a statement.
Both patients are in a critical condition.
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