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29 March 2024

Little girl loses 3 fingers in meat mincer

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A five-year-old Saudi girl lost three fingers and a part of her palm hand when she inserted her hand into a mincer to check the meat.

The mother has just got out of the kitchen and left the electric mincer in operation when the curious girl went inside and pushed her fingers into the machine.

Civil defense units rushed to the girl’s house in the central town of Buraydah after her mother turned the mincer off and called the police.

“The girl’s hand was still inside the mincer and bleeding when the civil defence men arrived…they used an electric saw to cut off of the mincer and free the girl’s hand,” the Saudi Arabic language daily Alriyadh said.

It said doctors at King Fahd hospital in the town were still struggling to reconstruct the girl’s hand after the accident on Wednesday.