Lightbulb removed from anus (Reuters) Updated: 2006-06-30 09:12 Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says
he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus.
Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a
one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.
Dr. Aftab Ahmed reads an X-ray of prison
inmate Fateh Mohammad at a hospital in Multan June 28, 2006.
[Reuters]
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"Thanks Allah, now I feel comfort. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just
drinking water, nothing else," Mohammad, a grey-beared man in his mid-40s, told
Reuters from a hospital bed in the southern central city of Multan.
"We had to take it out intact," said Dr. Farrukh Aftab at Nishtar Hospital.
"Had it been broken inside, it would be a very very complicated situation."
Mohammad, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, prohibited
for Muslims, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his
discomfort. He swears he didn't know the bulb was there.
"When I woke up I felt a pain in my lower abdomen, but later in hospital,
they told me this," Mohammad said.
"I don't know who did this to me. Police or other prisoners."
The doctor treating Mohammad said he'd never encountered anything like it
before, and doubted the felon's story that someone had drugged him and inserted
the bulb while he was comatose.
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