According to the Daily Mail, after the incident, she supported a colleague with a post on the social network, to which she received a comment: “Don't worry.

You are next."

Rowling said that she had already contacted the police because of the threats she had received.

“To everyone who sent messages of support: thank you.

The police are involved (already involved in other similar incidents),” the writer said on Twitter.

Earlier it was reported that an unknown person attacked British writer Salman Rushdie in New York.

Rushdie was stabbed in the neck and airlifted to a local hospital.

The attacker has already been arrested.

According to The New York Times, the writer is on a ventilator after the attack.