Obama hurt in basketball accident

ODN
ODN
  • 14 years ago

US President Barack Obama has been left with 12 stitches in his face after a sporting accident.

A keen basketball player, the President had been playing with friends and family in a ten-person game when he was accidentally elbowed in the face.

Mr Obama was given a local anesthetic and received stitches by the White House Medical Unit, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement.

He was filmed leaving Fort McNair, a US military post in Washington, after receiving the treatment.

Mr Obama was later spotted by reporters through an upstairs White House window holding what appeared to be a compress against his mouth, while the White House Christmas tree was being delivered outside.

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