Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been rushed from Fiji
to a private hospital in New Zealand after suffering head injuries
while holidaying at an exclusive island resort, reports said.
Richards was said to have first suffered headaches after falling
from a coconut tree and was then involved in a jetski
accident.
"He was injured. I don't know how badly," a spokeswoman at the
Wakaya Club resort told the Sunday News.
Richards received initial treatment at a hospital in Fiji and was
then flown to the Ascot Hospital in Auckland on Thursday where he
is understood to have undergone brain scans, the Sunday Star-Times
said.
Although hospital staff refused to confirm Richards was a patient,
the newspaper said Richards was conscious, mobile, had not
undergone surgery and was expected to be discharged early this
week.
Richards and his wife had been staying at the 7,600 US dollars a
night resort after the Stones played two shows in New Zealand in
mid-April.
According to the band's website, their next scheduled concert in
their Bigger Bang tour is in Spain in late May.