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Welsh rugby player breaks leg, waits 3 hours for ambulance

The Welsh Ambulance Service said emergency demand was “unprecedented; he waited on the cold field and medics said he could lose his foot

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SWANSEA, Wales — An investigation has been launched after a rugby player with a broken leg was left waiting on the pitch for three hours for an ambulance to arrive.

Luigi Segadelli had waited so long, paramedics told him he could lose his foot, which had turned blue. The 30-year-old broke his tibia and fibula while playing for Morriston RFC in Swansea on Saturday afternoon and the game was called off.

The Welsh Ambulance Service said emergency demand was “unprecedented.”

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