Toy beads puncture girl’s intestine: Chinese surgeons remove 61 magnetic beads from tummy of child, 4, after she swallowed the lot


Doctors in eastern China had to remove 61 magnetic beads from the belly of a four-year-old girl and patch up more than a dozen holes they had punched through the wall of her intestine, local media reported.

The beads – the size of soybeans which together make a popular educational toy – were found inside the child, named Xiaoyou, when she was X-rayed at a hospital in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province over the weekend.

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