Silvio Berlusconi in hospital, need weeks of treatment

Milan: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in hospital and need weeks of treatment following the attack on him at a Milan rally.

He was set to attend the Copenhagen climate change summit this week, but now the Prime Minister has been kept in hospital for another day.

Reports say that the Italian Prime Minister’s nose was broken and he lost two teeth and half a litre of blood in the attack, at the end of a political rally.

Silvio Berlusconi said it was a “miracle” he had not been blinded when a chunky souvenir made of marble and metal was thrown at his face.

Mr Berlusconi’s doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, said the injuries were more serious than initially thought, and he was able to eat only with great difficulty.

“I found him shaken, embittered, as if he had been woken from a bad dream — really disheartened,” he said.