Can’t stomach this: Amritsar man eats 40 knives

Amritsar : A team of doctors have removed 40 knives from a man’s stomach in a surgery that lasted five hours in Amritsar. In a most unusual case, the patient, Surjeet Singh, a policeman, said on Saturday that he ate knives because he craved them.  Dr Jitendra Malhotra, MD of Corporate Hospital, said the man, aged between 40 and 45, came to them complaining of a stomach ache and excessive weight loss.
“When we began diagnosis, we found the cause of the pain puzzling. We did an ultrasound, which revealed some solid mass in his stomach, shaped like cancer.” A biopsy revealed sharp knife-like objects. “The patient then told us he had an uncontrollable urge to eat knives,” he said. “What is astonishing is that he had been eating knives since the past two months.” Singh claimed he felt healthy after the operation.