Spear Gun Shoots Brazilian Woman in Mouth

A doctor said that a young Brazilian woman was accidentally shot in the mouth with a spear gun, with the projectile punching out the back of her neck but she survived.

Elisangela Borborema Rosa's husband was cleaning the underwater fishing device when it went off.

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It punctured her pharynx, broke two teeth and poked through a vertebra at the top of her neck, said Marcelo Amaral, the plastic surgeon that operated on her for two hours.

Removing it was a delicate operation because of arteries in the area, he said.

Had it landed a bit further to the right or left she would be paralyzed or dead, the doctor said.

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"You can say that she has come back from the dead," Amaral told Globo News television.

The woman is starting to take food and drink orally, but cannot yet speak.

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