According to the Daily Telegraph on January 10, an Italian man who was struck in the head by a stray bullet during New Year's Eve celebrations is recovering after sneezing the projectile out of his nose。
Darco Sangermano, 28, was hit in the temple by the 22 calibre bullet while wandering with his girlfriend through Naples - a city in Italy notorious for its rowdy New Year celebrations, often involving firearms and powerful fireworks。
The bullet went through the right side of his head, behind his eye socket and lodged in his nasal passage but miraculously did no serious damage。
Bleeding heavily, he was taken to hospital in an ambulance shortly after midnight, but while waiting to be seen by doctors he sneezed and the bullet shot out of his right nostril. The man from Turin returned to his hometown after being released from hospital。
"The route of the bullet broke his temporal bone, near his temple, and this slowed down the bullet which grazed his eyeball without hitting it directly," said the doctor of the hospital。