A 10-year-old boy has survived after being impaled by an iron bar that entered his left side and came out close to his right ear. Weverton Silva fell from a tree and landed on the 2ft (60cm) metal spike.
Doctor Rodrigo Chicralla told Brazil's Globo TV that it was a miracle that the youngster lived. The bar that pierced him during last week's accident in Rio de Janeiro state barely missed an artery and his heart.
The boy was on a branch of a guava tree when it broke. He fell on to a wall below from which the bar was jutting.
