Eel-legal entry: Surgeons stunned by squirming discovery
Published on: Fri, Jul 11, 2025 Text Size: The eel found in the man's abdominal cavity. BEIJING: A man in China recently found himself in a medical drama of the most slippery kind - with a live eel swimming around in his abdomen. The 33-year-old reportedly arrived at the hospital in agony, drenched in sweat and clutching his stomach as doctors scrambled to figure out what was wrong. CT scans raised eyebrows, revealing an unidentified object lodged in his abdominal cavity and prompting immediate surgery. To the surgeons' astonishment, the culprit turned out to be a foot-long eel, very much alive and squirming near the man's internal organs. The eel was safely removed, and surgeons patched up a tear in the man's sigmoid colon before giving the area a thorough rinse. Thankfully, the man made a full recovery and was discharged, though the eel, unsurprisingly, did not fare as well. While doctors remained tight-lipped about how the creature got there, online "detectives" wasted no time, with one commenter writing, 'We all know how it got in,' and another joking that the man must have 'sat on it by accident.' * Follow us on our official WhatsApp channel and Telegram for breaking news alerts and key updates! * Do you have access to the Daily Express e-paper and online exclusive news? Check out subscription plans available.
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