A YOUNG woman who impaled her breast on a door handle had to be cut free by firefighters.

The Daily Telegraph in Britain reports the unnamed 24-year-old victim still had the handle attached to her inside her home in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England, when ambulance officers arrived at the scene. No explanation was given as to how the accident happened.

She was taken to hospital after firefighters "used hand saws to cut her free", the paper said.

A spokesman for the Great Western Ambulanbce Service told the Telegraph: "An emergency care practitioner administered morphine which allowed fire crews to detach the handle from the door.

"You have to be so careful with traumas like this as you have no idea how deep the object is inside the woman or what internal damage might have been caused."

Originally published as Woman impales breast on door handle