- A man was impaled by a 6ft-long spear while he was sitting in a car in east China
- The spear lodged deeply from his back and in his upper abdominal area
- Doctors fear to remove it as the man could die due to large amount of blood loss
A man in east China was sent into a hospital with a six-foot-long spear pierced from the back.
Doctors inspected the patient and found that the spearhead was lodged deeply inside his body when he was sent in last Friday.
Local police investigated and believed it was not a mere accident.
A man is sent to a hospital with a 6.5ft-long spear lodged from his back (left). Doctors did not remove the spear right away for fear of him bleeding to death (right)
An anonymous source told local newspaper, anwang.cn, the unnamed man was attacked while sitting in his car as he spear was thrown through a window and into his back.
He was sent into Huangshan People’s Hospital, Anhui Province, for emergency treatment at midnight on December 8.
Video from the hospital shows the man lying on his stomach as the spear protrudes from his back.
Doctors avoided removing the tip for fear of causing the victim to bleed to death.
They decided to shorten the two-metre-long (6.56 ft)spear before transferring him to another hospital with better equipment.
The authorities said the red-tasselled spear was famously used by for centuries by warriors in imperial China.
The spear was thrown at the man who was sitting inside a red car through a car window
Doctors shorten the spear before sending him to another hospital with better equipment
The red-tasselled spear is known as a military weapon used in ancient China during war times
Reports said he arrived in east China’s Zhejiang Province for further treatment and is thought to be in stable condition following his surgery.
Huangshan police have confirmed that they are now looking into the incident and believed that it could be an intentional attack.
However, they refused to give out any further details due to the number of people involved.
The victim himself has also not revealed further details about the attack.