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Fujian province, China Man survives despite
hammering three 10cm nails into own head
A man has miraculously survived after apparently
hammering three 10cm (4in) nails into his own head.
X-rays revealed that the nails had been hammered
through the man’s skull and into his brain – but he made
a full recovery following surgery.
The unnamed 69-year-old was discharged on Thursday
after spending three months in a hospital in Haifeng
County, Fujian province in China, to be treated for
what he claims were self-inflicted injuries. However,
despite maintaining that he hammered the nails in
himself, hospital staff believe the injuries must have
been inflicted by someone else because of their severity.
The very lucky man insisted police should not be called,
and no one has yet been arrested in connection with the
incident.
Zhaotong, china Girl thought to have bad cold
turns out to have leech in her windpipe
Doctors were surprised when a young patient suffering
from throat pain turned out to have a live leech stuck
in her windpipe. The seven-year-old girl from Zhaotong,
south-west China, was taken to the Kunming Children’s
Hospital by her parents after she began having problems
with her breathing. Medics eventually discovered she had
a five centimetre worm in her windpipe and removed it.
‘We thought she might have caught a cold, but never
thought it was a leech or that it could stay there so long,’
the unnamed girl’s mother said.
Doctors added the worm had probably grown in size
while it was in the youngster’s throat after sucking on
her blood. The leech is thought to have entered the
schoolgirl’s mouth after she drank directly from a tap.
australia Ten-year-old surfer’s ‘shark attack’
downgraded to… a nasty mackerel bite
A young surfer sparked a shark attack alert this week
when she suffered a ‘significant hand injury’. The tenyear-old, a regular at Lennox Head, New South Wales
boarding hot spot, was taken by paramedics to Lismore
Base Hospital. However, later reports suggested her
assailant was merely mackerel and that she suffered a
‘scratched thumb’
A spokeswoman for the New South Wales state
ambulance service said they received a report that the
youngster had been bitten on the wrist by a shark off at
the beach 120 miles south of Brisbane.
Although sharks are common off Australia’s coast, the
country averages fewer than two fatal attacks per year.
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