The F1 world champion Michael Schumacher is in critical condition after suffering "severe head trauma" in a skiing accident in the French Alps on Sunday, hospital officials said. [File photo]

The F1 world champion Michael Schumacher is in critical condition after suffering "severe head trauma" in a skiing accident in the French Alps on Sunday, hospital officials said.

Schumacher was injured Sunday morning in a fall skiing in Meribel, Savoie, southeastern France.  

The 44-year-old German fell and hit his head on a rock, said the director of the Meribel resort where Schumacher was skiing.

According to the website of the newspaper Le Parisien,  Schumacher has a private residence in the station on the Trois Vallees, Savoy and was transported by helicopter to hospital in Moutiers, Savoie after the injury.

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