Obama Needs Stitches After Basketball Blow

Barack Obama has been elbowed in the face during a friendly game of basketball, leaving the US President needing 12 stitches in a cut lip.

Mr Obama had been playing with friends and family in a 10-person match at Fort McNair, a military centre in Washington, when the accident happened.
Footage shows the President sitting by an upstairs window nursing his wound.

Mr Obama was given a local anesthetic to numb the pain

He was later taken back to the White House for medical treatment.
Confirming the injury, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Mr Obama was "inadvertently hit" by an opposing player's flailing elbow.
The pain of receiving the stitches was dampened with a local anaesthetic, Mr Gibbs added.
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