In the Portuguese city of Coimbra, a 33 year old man was involved in a car accident which caused a large shard of glass to become embedded deep within his eye. The delicate procedure to remove the foreign body appears to have been a success with the victim reporting no visual impairment or change in eyesight, despite the fact that the shard was only millimetres from penetrating his pupil.

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