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Stunning pictures show a stone weighing almost a kilo, which was removed from a patient's bladder in Kashmir.

The stone, which weighs 834g and is about the size of two cricket balls was removed from 65-year-old Mohammad Yousuf Khan.

Doctors claim the stone is the largest ever removed from the urinary bladder of a patient.

The surgery took place at District Hospital, Anantnag, near Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Urological Surgeon Dr Arshad Bhat, who led the team performing the surgery, said: "The bladder stone surgery normally takes 20 minutes, but in view of the huge size of the stone, it took around 90 minutes."