Indian has 40 knives removed from gut
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AN Indian policeman who spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed yesterday said that “spiritual powers” made him do it.
The father-of-two underwent a successful five-hour operation to remove the knives from his stomach in the northern city of Amritsar after complaining to doctors of severe abdominal pain.
“I don’t know why I did it but there was some spiritual power behind it,” the 42-year-old said, declining to be named.
“It started in June when I swallowed the first knife and I enjoyed the feeling. It soon became a habit,” he said.
Doctors said they initially thought he was suffering from a tumor after body scans showed a large solid mass.
But on further investigation, they discovered dozens of folding knives measuring up to 18 centimeters unfolded.
“We immediately prepared him for surgery and removed the knives. There was bleeding as some of them were unfolded,” said Rajinder Rajan, one of the surgeons at Corporate Hospital.
Rajan said he suspected the patient, who told doctors he passed two more knives in his stools, was suffering from depression.
Although recovering well from Friday’s surgery, he would undergo a psychological assessment before being discharged from the hospital, Rajan said.
Doctors were not ruling out the possibility that he had pica disorder in which the sufferer feels compelled to consume non-edible things.
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