Five-year-old survives being hit by sickle

10:01, 05/01/2012

Quynh Nhat Hao, aged 5, from Bien Hoa City's Buu Hoa Ward in southern Dong Nai Province, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after being hit on the head with a sickle yesterday.

Quynh Nhat Hao, aged 5, from Bien Hoa City's Buu Hoa Ward in southern Dong Nai Province, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after being hit on the head with a sickle yesterday.

Doctors at the provincial hospital operated for three hours and managed to save the boy's life, hospital director Phan Huy Anh Vu said.

His alleged attacker, Nguyen Thanh Binh, aged 28, later gave himself up to municipal police.

(Source: VNS)