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Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi was injured during a visit to Luxembourg to commemorate a key World War II battle and was hospitalized for treatment, her office said Friday.
The 84-year-old Democrat was in the Grand Duchy with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, her spokesman Ian Krager said in a statement.
“Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi suffered an injury during an official engagement and was hospitalized for evaluation,” he said.
Pelosi “is currently receiving excellent treatment,” Krager said, adding that “she continues to work and regrets that she will not be able to attend the remainder of the delegation’s engagements.”
The statement did not elaborate on Pelosi’s injuries, but US media reported, citing unnamed insiders, that she had tripped while descending a marble staircase and fell hard, breaking her hip.
Allies in Pelosi’s home state of California and Washington said doctors were confident the damage could be repaired with routine surgery, according to The New York Times.
Pelosi, one of America’s most influential Democrats and the first woman to become speaker of the House of Representatives, left her second term last year.
She is still an elected representative from California and continues to have significant influence on Capitol Hill.
Pelosi had previously traveled in 2019 to attend the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II.
The battle raged for six weeks in icy weather in the Ardennes between Belgium and Luxembourg – pitting 600,000 American and 25,000 British troops against 400,000 Germans – until the Allies gained the upper hand in January 1945.
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