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Fall leaves man with multiple broken bones

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-26 07:43

A young man in Tianjin municipality fractured his arms and shoulders when he tried to pick up his eyeglass that fell down a corridor below his third-floor apartment.

On Monday night, Xu woke up after his dog suddenly began to bark and he realized his 700-yuan ($100) glasses had fallen.

In the darkness, he walked down to recover it, but fell after he leaned on a broken fence.

He went to a hospital where doctors told him that he needed to pay at least 20,000 yuan to repair several broken bones.

(Daily Update)