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A man was killed after he slipped in his bathroom and got the handle of a toilet brush wedged in his skull through his eye socket.

The unnamed 60-year-old was rushed to hospital near Moscow but doctors were unable to save him.

Surgeons had to open the man’s skull in an attempt to remove the brush which was embedded in his head through his right eye.

The victim had slipped on the floor of his bathroom at his home in the town of Istra and fell on the brush, reported Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) newspaper.

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He was given an MRI scan and X-ray plus strong antibiotics by stunned doctors, according to reports.

A disturbing picture shows the man at hospital when the brush was still embedded in him.

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“The toilet brush was cut off immediately above the eye of the patient but it was not possible to remove the handle straight away,” reported MK.

During the accident a bone had broken that threatened brain damage, said doctors.

“Surgeons decided to open the skull and remove first the broken bones and then the handle of the toilet brush,” reported the newspaper.

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“The surgery was performed and at first appeared to be successful, everything was removed, but the patient remained in a coma.

“He was moved to his local hospital in Istra town for further treatment but unfortunately some days later he died, still in a coma.”