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Sword survivor: Obviously you'd take a sword with you when you go round to visit your mate... Zhang Bin, 15, was taken 400km to hospital with 5cm of a 50cm sword embedded in his head. He said later: “Three classmates came to visit me at home and one of them brought a sword. He stood 3-4m away from me. I don't know how the sword could fly to me and stab into my head. I felt sharp pains and a large amount of blood streamed down”. Doctors at his nearest hospital did not feel able to deal with the injury and sent him to another unit four hours away, where the sword was removed in a four hour operation. The chief surgeon commented: “Luckily the knife didn't touch the arteries in the skull and key nerves, otherwise it would have been a different story”. (Photo by Rex Features)
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