A teenager from China has astonished doctors by surviving an attack in which a knife was plunged through his skull.
The 16-year-old was attacked in an internet café where he worked in a row over the highest score on the computer game Counter Strike.
The gang had asked him to load unauthorised software on to the store’s computers, to try and beat the teenager’s record high score on the video game Counter Strike, Chinese media reported.
Knifed in the skull, but the boy survived
Surgeons, who initially thought it was a student prank until the teenager collapsed, operated on him for two hours to remove the blade.
“The patient may have post-surgery complications like infections, brain damage or epileptic fits,” Prof Shijun said. “But he has regained consciousness and is really lucky.”
