A five-year-old boy was left in agony after he swallowed seven magnetic beads that burst through his bowel. The youngster was rushed to hospital in Changsha, the capital city of central China's Hunan province, where surgeons performed an emergency op to remove the magnets. But although they managed to remove…
A Dutchman creating a disturbance in a Spanish shopping centre who nobody could understand and who then collapsed and later died was found to have suffocated after he swallowed his car keys by accident. The unknown tourist from the Netherlands, aged 37, wаs on holiday with his family and was…
This large needle has been removed from an 18-year-old woman’s gut after she swallowed it as a baby. Gozdenur Akdag, 18, swallowed the needle at her family’s home in the south-western Turkish city of Aydin when she was one year old. After suffering from abdominal pain over the years, Akdag…
A 30-year-old drug mule has been arrested in Tenerife airport after he was found to have swallowed 94 capsules containing over 1 kilogramme of heroin. The passenger, who lives in Italy, was arrested at Tenerife Norte airport in, on the island of Tenerife in the southwestern Spanish region of the…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report These images show a boy who suffered painful burns to the inside of his throat after he swallowed a battery from a remote control and the cell charred his oesophagus when it short-circuited. The one-year-old named only as ‘Le Le’ was treated at Foshan…
