64 years later, bullet is removed
A Chinese doctor said a bullet was removed from a woman’s skull 64 years after she was shot by Japanese troops.
Jin Guangying, 77, went home in good condition after the four-hour surgery this month, said Zhou Hong, head of surgery at Renci Hospital in Jin’s native Jiangsu province.
Jin was 13 when she was shot in 1943 while delivering food to her father, a member of a guerrilla unit fighting Japanese troops, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
Tests found the bullet after she suffered periodic headaches and fits.
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