Saudi King has 'Successful' Back Operation
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 89, has "successfully" undergone a new operation on his back, the royal cabinet announced Sunday.
The operation, to correct "a ligamentary slackening in the upper back" of the monarch, ended at dawn on Sunday, said a statement quoted by the official SPA news agency.
The sovereign had already undergone a similar operation in October last year.
In November 2010 he was operated on in New York for a slipped disc complicated by a blood clot that put pressure on his spine, and underwent a further operation the following month before convalescing for a month in Morocco.
The king's half-brother Prince Salman, 76, was named crown prince in June after the death of Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz.
Source: Agence France Presse
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