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A Chinese man’s face has ‘melted’, decades after he suffered an accident as a toddler.

Yu Yinliang seriously damaged the left side of his face in a fall when he was just three years old.

Due to the poverty in his village and substandard medical treatment, the broken bones in his face were never properly treated.

Because his fractured bones never healed properly, over the years the whole left side of his face has slipped.

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Now the 48-year-old’s face appears to have melted, with his ear hanging down by his mouth.

To add to his misery, when Yu was 13 years old, he and his brother both started to develop mysterious bumps all over their bodies.

Doctors have diagnosed the pair with several different conditions, the latest of which is neurofibromatosis.

The case is similar to that of Chinese woman Li Hongfang, who has been left horrifically disfigured after mysterious tumours engulfed her face.

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The 40-year-old was one of the most beautiful women in her village in northwest China before the strange lumps appeared from nowhere.

The mum-of-two first noticed a lump on her forehead in 2001 but paid little attention as the growth was small and not painful.

But the lump continued to grow until Li, from Tianchao village in Xianyang, in Shaanxi Province, needed surgery to remove it in 2005.

Her nightmare continued when more and more tumours appeared on her face and she was eventually diagnosed with chordoma, a type of bone cancer which causes abnormal amounts of tissue to grow.