Ailing Bolsonaro says he will 'probably' need surgery

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday he will "probably" need surgery, after being hospitalized a day earlier in the northeastern city of Natal with what he called "unbearable" abdominal pain.

The far-right former leader said on X that he would "probably be operated on again" for the latest complication stemming from a 2018 attack during which he was stabbed in the stomach. Doctors told him it was "the most serious" incident since that attack, he said, describing it earlier as "a complication in the small intestine, a consequence of the multiple surgeries needed to undergo after the attack in 2018."