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Angela Merkel fractures pelvis in ski fall | |
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland, her spokesman says. | German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland, her spokesman says. |
She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in the next three weeks and several visits will be cancelled, Steffen Seibert said. | She will have to remain lying down as much as possible in the next three weeks and several visits will be cancelled, Steffen Seibert said. |
She also suffered severe bruising in the accident, in the Alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland. | She also suffered severe bruising in the accident, in the Alpine Engadine region of eastern Switzerland. |
Ms Merkel was not skiing fast at the time, the spokesman added. | Ms Merkel was not skiing fast at the time, the spokesman added. |
He called the injury "severe bruising linked with a partial fracture on the left, rear part of the pelvis". | He called the injury "severe bruising linked with a partial fracture on the left, rear part of the pelvis". |
Immediately after the accident, during the Christmas holiday in December, Ms Merkel was not aware that part of her pelvis had been fractured, the spokesman said. | |
He did not give details about how it happened. She was skiing near the resort of St Moritz. | |
Ms Merkel still intends to chair a cabinet meeting on Wednesday - the first gathering of all her coalition ministers. She is now walking with the aid of crutches. | |
But mostly she will be working from home. She has cancelled a trip to Poland this week and will not receive Luxembourg's new prime minister Xavier Bettel in Berlin, the spokesman said. |