The good luck charms he was cutting up didn't work, obviously

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD has had a miracle escape after slipping over on a pair of razor-sharp scissors.

The tiny tot had been cutting up traditional good luck scrolls at his family home in China.

But when little Yuqi Lui’s father arrived home, the boy sprinted to the front door to meet him, tripped and the blades  slammed through his face and became embedded next to his brain.

His mother Fengshuang said: “I heard him shout ‘Papa!’ and run out.

“I looked out the window expecting to see him come into view and then suddenly I heard him scream.

“It was a terrible high pitched wail and my heart leapt into my mouth.

“I ran and when I got to him I saw the huge pair of scissors that he had been using to cut up the scrolls was jutting from his face.”

The child’s parents borrowed a farm truck for an agonising ride around local hospitals seeking treatment for their stricken son.

And after 17 hours on the road, surgeons at Beijing’s Capital Institute of Pediatrics at the Xiehe Hospital agreed to operate.

X-rays showed the blades had only been stopped from reaching Yuqi’s brain because thet had caught on his jawbone.

His mother added:”He told us that if the scissors had been pulled out when the accident happened our son would have died.”

Yuqi has now made a full recovery after two weeks in hospital.

“It cost us all the savings we had but it was worth it to get the sunshine back into our lives,” added his relieved mother.

The four-year-old has made a full recovery...and now has a cool scar

The fat 49-year-old before weight-loss surgery (Europics.at)

ONE of the world’s fattest men has spoken of his his joy after surgeons sliced a whopping 264lbs of fat from his body.

The man with his pants around his ankles before and after the surgery

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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