Ex-Russian President Yeltsin Falls, Breaks Leg
From Times Wire Reports
Former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin was hospitalized after falling and breaking his leg in a resort town on the island of Sardinia, officials said.
Emergency workers arrived at the home in exclusive Porto Rotondo where the 74-year-old Yeltsin was staying and took him to a local hospital, said Giuseppe Soro, director of the ambulance dispatch center in Sassari.
Yeltsin’s spokesman, Vladimir Shevchenko, told Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency that the former president had broken his femur in a bad fall.
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