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Former US Home speaker Nancy Pelosi has been injured whereas visiting Luxembourg to commemorate a key World Conflict II battle and was admitted to hospital for therapy, her workplace stated Friday.
The 84-year-old Democrat was within the Grand Duchy with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, her spokesman Ian Krager stated in a press release.
“Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an damage throughout an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for analysis,” he stated.
Pelosi “is at the moment receiving wonderful therapy,” stated Krager, including that “she continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the rest” of the delegation’s engagements.
The assertion didn’t element Pelosi’s accidents however US media, citing unnamed insiders, reported that she had tripped descending marble stairs and had fallen onerous, breaking her hip.
Allies in Pelosi’s dwelling state of California and in Washington stated docs had been assured the injury may very well be repaired with a routine operation, in response to The New York Occasions.
Considered one of America’s most influential Democrats and the primary lady to turn into speaker of the Home of Representatives, Pelosi stepped down final 12 months from her second stint within the put up.
She continues to be an elected consultant from California and retains appreciable affect on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi had beforehand travelled in 2019 to attend the seventy fifth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the final main German offensive on the Western Entrance throughout World Conflict II.
The battle raged for six weeks in icy climate throughout the Ardennes area between Belgium and Luxembourg — drawing in 600,000 American and 25,000 British troops in opposition to 400,000 Germans — till the Allies prevailed in January 1945.
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