Muslim surgeon who treated Manchester bomb victims is stabbed in 'hate crime'
A HOSPITAL consultant who treated Manchester terror bomb victims yesterday told of his horror after being stabbed while entering his mosque in an alleged race hate attack.
Orthopaedic surgeon Nasser Kurdy was stabbed while entering his mosque in a 'race hate' attack
Police were last night quizzing two men, aged 54 and 32, on suspicion of Sunday’s assault.
Orthopaedic surgeon Nasser Kurdy, 58 described himself as “extremely lucky” to have survived the “random attack”.
The married father-of-three said: “I was just the person at that time. Waking up this morning, I would say I’m extremely lucky.”
He pleaded for calm and said he has forgiven his attacker.
It’s shocking something like this can happen. I was told later it was a knife in my neck. It was painful.
Detectives say he was stabbed in the neck as he entered the Islamic Cultural Centre, in Hale, Greater Manchester.
Unaware the knifeman had fled, Mr Kurdy picked up a chair ready to defend other worshippers.
He was taken to hospital for his three-inch wound to be dressed.
Yesterday Mr Kurdy thanked the “absolutely brilliant” emergency services, adding: “It’s shocking something like this can happen.
"I was told later it was a knife in my neck. It was painful.
"I could tell immediately none of the vital structures were affected.
“I put pressure on my neck. My main concern was that he wasn’t going to come in.”
Mr Kurdy is a UK national of Jordanian and Syrian heritage and vice-chairman of the Altrincham & Hale Islamic Association.