The real-life elephant man has his own trunk (Pics: Europics.at)

Meet the real-life Elephant Man.

The 28-year-old has baffled medics after growing an enormous tumour which covers his entire head and face.

Yang Huiming, who lives in rural central China, is thought to suffer from a rare condition in which benign tumours ‘bond’ with each other – resulting in a single huge growth.

In his case, it has left him with this unsightly ’trunk’ over his nose and up his forehead, reminiscent of the character played by John Hurt in the 1980 Oscar-nominated film.

The growths began with a small bean-sized lump on his left eyelid as a
toddler and quickly spread all over his face, say medics at Military 304
Hospital, in Beijing.

Surgeons believe the growths are caused by a rare deformity of Yang’s skull
which causes facial tissue to constantly grow over diseased fibres
protruding from the skull.

The enormous growth is even visible in X Rays

Now they plan to remove the damaged part of Yang’s skull and replace it with
an alloy plate to halt the constant regrowth of fatty tumours.

“All I want is to look normal.

“I hope and pray this will work,” Yang told the Austrian Times.

This X-ray shows the needles inside the man's stomach Pic: europics.at

But after finding his blood pressure was fine they sent him for X-rays – and found 11 long needles buried in his intestines.

Medics believe that Ching Goha of Leping, eastern China, may have unwittingly injured himself by following an ancient Chinese tradition to ward off evil spirits by carrying big needles.

“I used to carry a bag of them around in my pocket but I never felt anything jabbing into me,” claimed Ching.

Now hospital staff have removed nine of the needles – with some measuring nearly two inches long – and say they will get the final two in a second op.

Some of the needles were more than two inches long

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Imagine pushing this lot out Pic: Europics.at

A WOMAN has given birth to FOUR identical boys – at odds of 3,500,000-1.

Knackered Chen Liling knew she was expecting more than one baby.

But the 24-year-old pumped out four of the buggers in Jinxing, southern China.

She wheezed: “I am delighted but very tired – and I don’t think I’ll be getting much sleep.”

Doctors at the local Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital said the quads were delivered by caesarean section.

 ”We arranged a C-section for the mother, and within five minutes, all the little ones came out,” said Dr Song Yuling.

Medics say the tots weighed in at 3lbs 6oz, 3lbs 5oz, 3lbs 1oz, and 2lbs 13oz and all four are doing well in incubators.

“One has some breathing difficulties but we are overcoming that and they will all be healthy enough to leave with their mother soon,” a hospital spokesman told the Austrian Times.

Medics and firefighters try to free Peng's right arm from the meat grinder

THIS horrified worker got his right forearm mangled by a meat grinder when a co-worker turned on the switch by accident.

The 18-year-old was cleaning the grinder after work when a colleague accidentally turned on the machine, sucking his right arm into the grinder.

The victim, a Mr Peng, was rapidly transferred to Bujie Hospital in southern China’s Guangdong province – along with the machinery.

“I heard a scream so turned it off ,” said the terrified co-worker.

Mr Peng was finally freed several hours later by medics and firefighters using heavy cutting equipment.

His right arm was badly fractured, but miraculously does not need to be amputated.