India, April 25 -- Doctos at a government hospital in Berhampur in Odisha miraculously removed an eight-centimetre-long broken piece of knife from the lungs of a 24-year-old man.

The sharp piece of knife was lodged in the man's lung for over three years after he was stabbed by an unknown man in Bengaluru, news agency PTI said.

A team of doctors in government-run MKCG Medical College and Hospital removed the sharp knife from the lungs of Santosh Das by conducting a right thoracotomy operation on Tuesday.

The steel knife was eight centimetre long, 2.5 cm wife and 3mm thick.

Das' operation was conducted without any complication and he is nwo recovering in the ICU, Dr Sarada Prasanna Sahoo told PTI.

Santosh Das revealed that the knife en...