In Pictures: X-Ray Of Live Ammo In Afghan Soldier’s Head

THIS is a picture of a two-inch long live round of ammunition lodged in the head of living Afghan soldier. The US Air Force image stems from work by Radiologist Lt Col Anthony Terreri. He explained the patient and discovered that the shrapnel was in fact a 14.5mm unexploded round. Says he:

“I saw that it was not solid metal on the inside. I then looked at the scout image and could see there was an air gap on one end and what looked almost like the tip of a tube of lipstick at the end and decided this didn’t look quite right.”

Wearing body armour, neurosurgeon Major John Bini and anaesthetist Major Jeffrey Rengel removed the bullet in an operation at Bagram Air Field. The patient’s health is “improving”.

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Xiao Wei, who was playing Counter Strike with his mate Huang in an internet café in China when another boy pulled him into the street and stabbed him in the head with a ten-inch blade. He got himself to hospital. And lived.

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Posted: 12th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink