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Man survives hours with knife in head after brawl

The Brazilian man was not aware, likely due to shock and alcohol, of the knife lodged just behind his optical nerve for three hours

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — How’s this for a miraculous outcome? A Brazilian man who was stabbed in the head during an argument survived despite the knife being lodged in his skull for over three hours.

Motorcycle taxi driver Juacelo Nunes de Oliveira was at a party in a bar in the city of Agua Branca, in northeastern Piaui state, last Sunday when he got into an altercation.

The 39-year-old was stabbed four times, three times in the torso, with one wound perforating a lung, and once in the head.

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