Video shows Khan standing at the front of an open top container truck during a protest march to demand snap elections when a gunman wielding an AK-47 fired at the politician.
He was six days into a march from Lahore to Islamabad in his drive to bring early elections to the country, pushing for radical change, when the shooting took place.
Large crowds had gathered to hear him speak - and Lynch said she had just interviewed him about threats of violence - when there was a "sudden commotion".
"Armed police started running towards us. Ambulances were screeching into the area. I saw one bloodied man carried into the ambulance and then another," she said.
"The injured were taken into an ambulance... a lot of panic... people rushing. No one could quite work out what was happening.
"Imran Khan was taken away... a doctor, who was close by, treated three patients."
Faisal Javed, one of Mr Khan's close aide's and a senator, was among the injured.
"Imran Khan and Faisal Javed received bullets wounds. A bullet hit Imran Khan's shin. Both have been taken to hospital for treatment," said Fawad Chaudhry, a spokesman for Mr Khan's political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
"It was a clear assassination attempt. Imran Khan was hit but he's stable. There was a lot of bleeding.
"If the shooter had not been stopped by people there, the entire PTI leadership would have been wiped out."
Mr Javed, who had blood stains on his clothes, told Geo TV from the hospital: "Several of our colleagues are wounded. We heard that one of them is dead."
During the interview, a supporter pointed to a bandage on the left-hand-side of Mr Javed's face, saying a bullet had skimmed his cheek.
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