«Breaking News» Brazilian far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed in the stomach on campaign trail

This is the shocking moment Brazil's right wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed while campaigning for next month's election.

The controversial far right-wing candidate, who is leading the polls, was attacked while being carried shoulder high in the midst of a crowd in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, south east Brazil.

The horrifying moment was caught on several cameras as the assailant struck Bolsonaro in the stomach. 

The politician is seen collapsing and clutching his stomach in agony and is then rushed to hospital.

Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is taken on the shoulders of a supporter moments before being stabbed during a campaign rally in Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Bolsonaro is reported to have suffered a wound to his liver and is being worked on by surgeons

Jair Bolsonaro is being carried by the crowd while campaigning in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, south east Brazil

He can suddenly be seen grasping his stomach and wincing in pain and the crowd carries him on

The crowd react and carry the wounded politician to safety. He is currently undergoing critical surgery

A group of people try to detain Adelio Bispo de Oliveira (pictured centre), who allegedly stabbed the right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro

Although his son Flavio said in a Twitter message the wound was superficial, it now appears to be far more serious as his father was rushed into surgery. 

At the time of the confusion, Bolsonaro was being carried on his shoulders by a supporter of his campaign, doing hand-to-hand with voters.

As he acknowledged to his supporters, one person approached him and allegedly stabbed him.

Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro campaigns in the district of Ceilandia in Brasilia, yesterday

According to reports, Bolsonaro would normally be wearing a bullet proof vest provided by the federal police for his safety. However, on this occasion he was without the protection.

Bolsonaro was taken to the Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Juiz de Fora. 

The hospital reported that he was admitted to the emergency room at about 3:40 pm with 'a sharps injury in the abdomen.'

Initially his son had said the injury had been superficial, but examination indicated the suspicion of a liver injury.

Around 5:50 pm local time, TV Globo reported that the politician had suffered an injury to the intestinal loop. Surgeons confirmed it had already sewn up. 

Police spokesman Flavio Santiago confirmed that his attacker had been arrested. 

Santiago said the attacker was identified as Adelio Bispo de Oliveira. 

He said the suspect was beaten badly by Bolsonaro supporters after the attack. 

Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is a polarizing figure and has been fined, and even faced charges, for derogatory statements towards women and black people

The man was arrested in 2013 for another assault, police said.

Luis Boudens, president of the National Federation of Federal Police, told the Associated Press that the assailant appeared to be mentally disturbed.

'Our agents there said the attacker said he was `on a mission from God,'' Boudens reported. 'Their impression is that they were not dealing with a mentally stable person. He didn't expect to be arrested so quickly; agents reacted in seconds.'

In a statement, the hospital said Bolsonaro was in surgery but did not elaborate.

Bolsonaro, a former army captain, is second in the polls to jailed ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been barred from running but continues to appeal.

Despite being a congressman since 1991, Bolsonaro is running as an outsider ready to upend the establishment by cracking down on corruption in politics and reducing crime, in part by giving police a more free hand to shoot and kill while on duty.

Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (pictured left) gestures at the crowd during a campaign rally in the district of Ceilandia in Brasilia, on September 5, 2018

While Bolsonaro has a strong following, he is also a deeply polarizing figure. 

He has been fined, and even faced charges, for derogatory statements toward women and black people

He speaks nostalgically about the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and has promised to fill his government with current and former military leaders. 

His vice presidential running mate is a retired general.

Earlier this week, Bolsonaro said during a campaign event that he would like to shoot corrupt members of the leftist Workers' Party, which made da Silva its candidate. 

The comment prompted an immediate rebuke from the attorney general, who asked Bolsonaro to explain that comment.

In a sign of how polarized Brazilian politics has become, people took to Twitter Thursday night to either to decry the stabbing and ask for prayers for Bolsonaro or to say that the candidate had brought it upon himself and even may have staged it.

The top five trending topics in Brazil were related to the stabbing, and someone even created an account for the knife, whose tweets had been retweeted thousands of times just hours after the attack.

The attack Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, pictured at a campaign rally, comes at a time of increasingly heated rhetoric related to campaigns

Other presidential candidates quickly denounced the stabbing.

'Politics is done through dialogue and by convincing, never with hate,' tweeted Gerado Alckmin, former governor of Sao Paulo who has focused negative ads on Bolsonaro.

Fernando Haddad, who is expected to take da Silva's place on the Workers' Party ticket, called the attack 'absurd and regrettable.'

The attack comes at a time of increasingly heated rhetoric, and sometimes violence, related to campaigns and candidates.

In March, while da Silva was on a campaign tour in southern Brazil before his imprisonment, gunshots hit buses in his caravan. 

No one was hurt, and da Silva, who is in jail on a corruption conviction, was not in the vehicles that were hit.

Also in March, Marielle Franco, a black councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, was shot to death along with her driver after attending an event on empowering black women.

It wasn't immediately clear how the attack on Bolsonaro might reshape a presidential race very much up in the air with the front-runner, da Silva, in jail. 

In many ways, the incident feeds Bolsonaro's narrative that Brazil is in chaos and needs a strong hand to steady it.

'It's likely that Bolsonaro will use the attack to argue his opponents are desperate, that they had no other way to stop him,' said Mauricio Santoro, a political science professor at Rio de Janeiro's state university.

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