A Brazilian hospital is carrying out an enquiry after images appeared online of surgery where a huge fish had shot up a man’s backside and had to be removed by doctors.
The Hospital Universitario (University Hospital ) in Londrina, a city in southern Brazil, confirmed that the incident was real and had happened after the man apparently decided to put the fish into his own rear as part of a bizarre sexual fantasy.
But instead of being able to pull it out again, the fish – which was a South American Lungfish and looks similar to an eel – had wriggled all the way inside and passed a considerable way through his intestines before he sought medical help.
