PULLING A SICKLE
After a day of harvesting in Deori, India, Bhuppu Sen, 16, retired to bed, leaving his sickle on the floor beside him. During the night, he rolled out of bed and straight onto the implement, embedding the end 1.5 inches (4cm) into his head. Amazingly, Sen did not experience any bleeding, but was rushed to hospital where doctors carried out a CT scan and operated on him for three hours to remove the blade. Neurosurgeon Dr Kuldeep Singh, who carried out the procedure, was stunned that the boy survived and wasn’t paralysed by the injury, but he made a full recovery without any discernable brain damage and reported that he didn’t feel any pain from his injury. , 18 Mar 2022.
