By Harry Howard For Mailonline
Published: 13:17 BST, 9 June 2019 | Updated: 13:17 BST, 9 June 2019
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Doctors in India have miraculously saved the life of a painter and decorator who was impaled by a two-foot-long piece of his bamboo ladder.
Panchanana Pradhan, 38, was perched on a bamboo ladder when one of the rungs gave way - sending him crashing seven feet to the ground.
As he hit the floor the full weight of Panchanana's body came down on top of a piece of the ladder, which had a sharp nail on the end.
Doctors in India have miraculously saved the life of painter and decorator who was impaled by a two foot long bamboo pole
As he hit the floor the full weight of Panchanana's body came down on top of a shard, which pierced his skin and jammed in his side. Luckily for the decorator, the bamboo piece avoided his stomach and pancreas and also passed in front of his heart
It pierced his skin and jammed in his side and images show almost the entire
