Girl, 12, stabbed in the head with five inch knife - and SURVIVES
A 12-YEAR-OLD girl has miraculously survived having a five-inch knife thrown into her head by accident.
The blade narrowly missed Yao Huilin's major arteries and veins
The blade penetrated her skull by more than an inch when it was thrown by a boy allegedly aiming for the girl’s friend.
Amazingly, the knife missed all the child's major veins and arteries and lodged itself within in her skull.
Surgeons said the child, named by local media as Yao Huilin, 12, would have died if the knife were any deeper.
When we left, the boy threw the knife at my friend - but it hit me instead
Zeng Zhiming, chief neurosurgeon a Dongguang City Third People's Hospital in south China, said: "From CT scans we found that the knife was wedged in a tiny slit between the child's parietal and occipital bones.
"This space is usually non-existent in adults, but because the patient is still young her skull has yet to fully develop."
Yao is now recovering in the hospital, in Guangdong Province, after Dr Zhiming and his team successfully removed the weapon from her skull.
Yao, a fifth-grader, said: "At around 7pm one day after supper, my friend and I were walking through a park when she and another boy got into an argument.
"When we left, the boy threw the knife at my friend - but it hit me instead."
Reports said the father of the suspect - aged 13 - has paid the £800 medical bill, and is now in talks with Yao's family over further compensation.
Surgeons successfully removed the knife from Yao Huilin's skull
The five-inch blade was thrown at the girl's head
The boy, who is under 14 and below the legal age of criminal responsibility for causing intentional injury, cannot be charged and has been let off with a caution.
Yao is expected to be discharged from hospital sometime next week.
The knife lodged itself in Yao's skull
Her incredible recovery comes weeks after footage of surgeons in Spain removing a sword from a man's heart went viral.
It is believed the man stabbed himself but survived the ordeal after medics expertly removed the sword just millimetres away from his heart.