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Hooked: Fishing accident leaves 14 year old boy with fishing dart in his head

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Doctors at Manarat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima performed surgery to remove a fishing dart pierced in the head of a 14 year old Thai boy.

Locals in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Chakkarat district called a rescue team after discovering a 14 year old boy, Chayathorn, with a serious head injury. A fishing dart, measuring about 30 centimetres, pierced his forehead, leaving him in a precarious state as he awaited the arrival of the rescue team, his breaths laboured.

Chayathorn was taken to Chakkarat Hospital before being transferred to the more specialised Manarat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital. The doctor cut off part of the dart outside his head and sent the boy for a CT scan to plan an operation to remove the…

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