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Seven metal bars were left embedded in the builder’s neck (Picture: Rex)

This builder is ‘lucky to be alive’ after seven metal bars were accidentally shot through his neck in China.

Long Chao was working on a job in Luzhou, in China’s Sichuan Province, when the rods shot out towards him like bullets.

A builder had seven metal bars impaled in his neck (Picture: Rex)

The unlucky 40-year-old was seriously injured when the machine used to straighten metal bars suddenly malfunctioned.


He was rushed to hospital where he underwent a six-hour operation to remove the poles after doctors cut them to a smaller size.

Doctors say he is ‘lucky to be alive’ (Picture: Rex)

Doctor Wang Qing said Long was lucky to escape death, as the neck is a cluster of nerves and arteries.



It is still unknown if he has been left paralysed by the incident.

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