Saudi King Salman leaves hospital, says royal court
(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz, 86, left hospital on Sunday following a colonoscopy final week, the royal court docket mentioned in an announcement on state media.
Saudi TV ran a video clip exhibiting the monarch strolling slowly utilizing a cane as he left King Faisal Specialist Hospital within the metropolis of Jeddah, the place he was admitted on the night of Could 7.
An entourage saved shut and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the dominion’s de facto ruler, appeared within the clip.
King Salman, the custodian of Islam’s holiest websites, grew to become ruler of the world’s high oil exporter in 2015 after spending greater than 2-1/2 years because the crown prince and deputy premier.
He underwent bladder surgical procedure in 2020 and had the battery of his coronary heart pacemaker changed in March.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Modifying by Robert Birsel)
