GETTY The horrific incident happened in Tien Giang province, Vietnam

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The scorned husband turned purple, collapsed in a heap and died following the altercation with his spouse, during which he attacked her with his fists. In retaliation she desperately grabbed his testicles and squeezed hard for five minutes until he fell to the ground.

Medics said 53-year-old Le Kim Khai, from Vietnam, died of suffocation after vomit became lodged in his windpipe during the incident. It was only when neighbours intervened that Khai’s wife, Phan Thi Kim Chuong, agreed to release her husband’s crushed private parts, but by then he was beyond medical help.

GETTY The husband suffered an agonising death (file picture)

According to local reports the couple became involved in a violent fight after the husband returned home and found the doors locked. Police in the southern province of Tien Giang said Khai was furious at the refusal of his wife and two daughters to let him in and flew into a rage. He responded by cutting into the lock with a handsaw, and it was then that the domestic battle began. Khai, the head of a neighbourhood security unit, reportedly attacked his wife with his fists, despite his daughters’ attempts to stop him.

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In her desperation, Chuong grabbed Khai’s testicles and squeezed hard, at one point jumping on his stomach to hold him down as she continued to apply pressure. Neighbours who heard his piercing scream ran into the house, where they found Chuong sitting on her husband, his private area still grasped in her hand, while his face turned purple. She finally agreed to release him as police sped to the house. By then Khai, whose testicles had been crushed for at least five minutes, had slipped into unconsciousness and was found to be dead on arrival at hospital.

GETTY The man had come home to find the doors locked