Nine needles removed from throat of 14-yr-old girl in Bengal
Nine needles were removed from the throat of a 14-year-old girl at a government-run hospital in West Bengal after a four-hour surgery. Doctors found one needle at the back of the girl's throat and eight near the food pipe after an x-ray. Hospital authorities said the needles were not swallowed by the girl, but inserted from outside "for some ritual".