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The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk has been seriously injured after being stabbed on stage at the country's biggest charity event, officials say.
Pawel Adamowicz, 53, was taken to hospital, where he is in a critical condition after five hours of surgery.
The 27-year-old suspect, who has a criminal record, has been detained.
He said the Civic Platform party, which led the previous government and had supported Mr Adamowicz's re-election, had wrongfully imprisoned him.
Mr Adamowicz suffered very serious abdominal injuries during the attack. During a five-hour operation, the mayor was given 41 units of blood.
"He remains in a very, very serious condition," one of his doctors said early on Monday. "The coming hours will be decisive."
In a later update on his condition, doctors said Mr Adamowicz was not breathing on his own and a machine was helping to operate his heart and lungs.
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