Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter receives stitches after fall

Former US president Jimmy Carter suffered a black eye and needed 14 stitches after a fall at his Georgia home.

Carter turned 95 last Tuesday to become the first US president to reach that milestone.

Despite the injury, he made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity.

The president fell earlier in the day at his home in Plains, Georgia, and required the stitches above his brow.

Carter survived a cancer diagnosis in 2015 and this spring surpassed George HW Bush as the longest-lived US president in history.

He has had some trouble walking after a hip replacement in May.

Via CNN

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