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POLICE in Russia are tracking a gang after a married TV presenter woke up without his testicles after attending a sauna with a mystery blonde.

Dmitry Nikolaev, 30, from Moscow, was enjoying a drink at his local bar when the mystery woman approached him.

Shortly afterwards they hailed a taxi and went to a nearby sauna, where he helped himself to a beer and they shared a kiss, according to LifeNews.Ru.

The next thing he remembers is waking up, feeling an acute pain below the waist and noticing blood on his pants.

He said: "I met a girl at the bar and then we went to the sauna for a taxi. I remember that I had a beer, and do not remember any more."

It was only when he arrived at hospital that doctors told him he'd been drugged and his testicles were removed by someone who was an expert in castration.

Russian police believe Dmitry was targeted by a criminal gang selling organs on the black market.

He added: "I thought it was just a cut but doctors told me my testicles had been removed."

He spent hours in intensive care where doctors underwent a second operation to close the wound, according to Russian media.

The skin was originally cauterised and it was a clean cut, so surgeons believe the culprit may have been a doctor or even a vet.

Dmitry meanwhile, told his wife he was forced to undergo emergency surgery on his genitals because of a sudden serious illness.

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