Quake victim's legs amputated with pocket knife

Fri, 25 February 2011

13:25

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An Australian doctor described how he used a pocket knife and a hacksaw to amputate the legs of a man trapped under rubble after New Zealand's deadly earthquake. He told Australian broadcaster ABC that he was scared for his life as he and other medics decided that the only way to save the injured man, whose legs were crushed under a heavy beam, was to perform the amputation.

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