AURANGABAD: Doctors at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in

surgically removed a plastic bottle from man's rectum.

The man, suspected to be an alcoholic, had accidentally inserted the bottle into his rectum.

A team of doctors led by HoD of the Surgery department Sarojini Jadhav, had conducted a surgery on the 50-year-old man on April 17 after attempts to remove the plastic bottle of 400ml capacity through rectal route failed, surgeon Mohammed Ansari said.

"We did an X-ray and CT scan of the patient in which we found the bottle deep inside the sigmoid colon. We had to perform laparotomy to remove the bottle, he said.