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Angela Merkel injured in skiing accident Angela Merkel injured in skiing accident
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German chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured her pelvis in a skiing holiday in Switzerland, forcing her to cancel meetings for the next three weeks. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has fractured her pelvis during a skiing holiday in Switzerland, forcing her to cancel meetings for the next three weeks.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday that the chancellor suffered what she first thought was just a bruise to her left rear pelvic area while cross-country skiing. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said on Monday the chancellor had suffered a fall while cross-country skiing in Engadin in the Swiss Alps. It was thought at first she had just suffered bruising but doctors later determined it was a partial fracture of the left interior pelvic ring.
Doctors told her on Friday that the injury was in fact an "incomplete" bone fracture that will require her to rest for three weeks. Seibert told reporters Merkel was walking with the help of crutches and would need to cancel a number of official appointments but would continue to lead the government and hold cabinet meetings.
Seibert told reporters that Merkel is walking with the help of crutches and would need to cancel a number of official appointments in the coming weeks but would continue to lead the government and hold cabinet meetings. Merkel had originally planned to visit Poland and meet the new prime minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, in Berlin this week.
Merkel will lead a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, which will be the first gathering of all the ministers in the new "grand coalition" government of her conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats, which was formalised last month. Merkel will lead a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, which will be the first gathering of all ministers in the new "grand coalition" government of her conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats, which was formalised last month.
Seibert said Merkel's fall occurred "at low speeds" but was unable to say if another person was involved. Seibert said Merkel's fall occurred "at low speeds" but was unable to say if another person was involved. In what seemed to be a reference to the debate over Formula One champion Michael Schumacher's much more severe skiing accident last Sunday, Seibert said: "We are assuming she was travelling at low speed." The lighthearted tone of the remark drew criticism on social media.
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