The 24-year-old was working on the site in Ghaziabad, New Delhi, India, on July 31 when he stopped and looked up. Then a metal rod came hurtling down from the 20th floor towards him, plunging through his brain and out the back of his skull.

The unnamed man was rushed to Flores Hospital where half his skull had to be opened so the doctor could free the rod from his brain during four hours of surgery by senior neurosurgeon, Dr Abhinav Gupta.

Thankfully, there has been no additional damage to his brain but the left side of his body has been left paralysed.

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Dr Gupta removed parts of the 24-year-old’s skull and placed them under the sub-cutaneous pouch of his abdomen – a practice used to keep the skull fragment viable while allowing the brain to swell and easing blood flow to the organ.

The neurosurgeon said the construction worker, from Jharkhand, would need further surgery in two months’ time to put the skull fragment back in place.

“We are monitoring the patient closely and the outcome looks positive”, Dr Gupta told the Times of India.

They said the 24-year-old was now breathing unaided and was able to open his eyes – but added they were not sure how much he understood.

“He has a long way to go before he recovers from the injury fully”, Dr Gupta said, adding the patient would need physiotherapy and rehab in the future.

This is the ‘tale’ a mother-of-four told some media persons who interviewed her on her survival skills in coping with her disabled children.

The unidentified woman shared the heartbreaking story of how she got home from the farm on that fateful day to discover rebels had attacked her husband.

She disclosed she found her husband decapitated and assumed the bandits carried his head away as trophy, but that assumption was crashed after her children took their lunch.

She told the media that when it was time to dish out her meal, the beans had turned red from the blood of her husband, and his decapitated head was inside the pot of beans.

“The children were too young and without knowing they ate the beans that had their father’s head, from that day they have never been the same age.

“They started having trauma. My daughter stopped talking, trembled, and could not make any move by herself while the son runs away sometimes to anywhere he finds.

“Before the attack, I told their father that the community had become insecure but the father did not want to leave the place. I left and went to live in the next house a distance away with the children.

“When we came in the morning to check on him, we found everything messed up and the door and windows had been broken,” she said in Kinyarwanda language.

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