Farmer is found to have hundreds of coins and nails in his STOMACH after swallowing them because he was 'depressed'

                             

Rajpal Singh, 34, from Bathinda in India's western state of Punjab, went to many different medical centres complaining of a stomach ache, but doctors were baffled as to the cause. Finally, an X-ray revealed a mass of foreign objects in his stomach (the scan is pictured top right, and some of the coins he swallowed, bottom right). Mr Singh had sunk into a depression and began eating metal objects including coins, iron nails, magnets, nuts and bolts and screws. Doctors carried out a nine-hour operation to remove the metal from his stomach (left is an image revealing the objects, taken from a camera put down his throat into his stomach), but he will still need another procedure as they couldn't get it all out in one go.