Woman survives harpoon to face, A Brazilian woman has survived being shot through the mouth with a harpoon - by her husband.
Doctors say the harpoon spear came within 1cm of killing Elisangela Borborema Rosa, 28. It shot through her mouth and lodged against her spine, neurosurgeon Allan da Costa said.
She has undergone emergency surgery, and is expected to make a full recovery, the BBC reports.
The bizarre near-miss reportedly took place when the spear gun accidentally went off as her husband was cleaning it. Police said they are not treating the incident as intentional.
Rosa was in the kitchen of her home in the coastal town of Arraial do Cabo, 150km east of Rio de Janeiro, when she was hit by the harpoon on Monday. Her husband had been cleaning it in the living room.
A team of specialist doctors were needed to remove the spear.
"This is the first case of this type I have seen," Dr Costa told the BBC.
"The peculiarity of this case is that the tip of the harpoon lodged itself between the anterior vertebral canal and the medullary canal.
"One centimetre further in, and she would have been paralysed, one centimetre further out and it would have hit an artery which provides the brain [with blood] and she would have been dead."
Police said they would question her once she was recovered "to get a clearer picture of what happened".
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Woman survives harpoon to face
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