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Surjeet Singh from Amritsar in northern India complained to medical experts that had been suffering from severe stomach aches and a low appetite.
They initially thought he had developed a tumour but a biopsy revealed metal inside his body.
Mr Singh suffered from a disorder that gave him an urge to swallow knives, according to surgeon Jitendra Malhotra.
The patient said he developed the habit while he recovered from a traffic accident in Chandigarh.
He said: "I could not walk properly after that. I used to sit idle and started swallowing down knives. It pained a little."
Mr Singh thought he had swallowed 28 knives but doctors actually found 40 after a five-hour long operation.
The surgeon said: "As soon as we placed the camera inside, we saw some metallic material on our screen. In those metallic materials, there were shards of blades and woods which were very rare and surreal.
"I had never seen anything like this in my 20 years of practice. We thought they were knives and retrospectively asked the patient and he said he has this urge to swallow knives.
"The patient said that he had swallowed 28 knives but we removed 40.
The Knives Are Out! Forty Removed From Police Officer's Body
They initially thought he had developed a tumour but a biopsy revealed metal inside his body.
Mr Singh suffered from a disorder that gave him an urge to swallow knives, according to surgeon Jitendra Malhotra.
The patient said he developed the habit while he recovered from a traffic accident in Chandigarh.
He said: "I could not walk properly after that. I used to sit idle and started swallowing down knives. It pained a little."
Mr Singh thought he had swallowed 28 knives but doctors actually found 40 after a five-hour long operation.
The surgeon said: "As soon as we placed the camera inside, we saw some metallic material on our screen. In those metallic materials, there were shards of blades and woods which were very rare and surreal.
"I had never seen anything like this in my 20 years of practice. We thought they were knives and retrospectively asked the patient and he said he has this urge to swallow knives.
"The patient said that he had swallowed 28 knives but we removed 40.
The Knives Are Out! Forty Removed From Police Officer's Body
