A strange incident has taken place in Singapore where doctors have removed a half-chewed octopus from a man’s throat.

According to the New York Post, the incident took place at Singapore’s Tan Tok Hospital, where doctors successfully removed an octopus stuck in a man’s esophagus after surgery.

According to the details, the 55-year-old victim complained that it was difficult for him to swallow anything after eating (octopus) after which he was taken to the hospital where a CT scan revealed a deep substance in the victim’s alimentary canal. was diagnosed as trapped.

According to the report, an octopus was trapped near the victim’s esophagus and stomach.

After diagnosing an octopus stuck in the esophagus, doctors made several unsuccessful attempts to extract it, but then decided to pull it out through an endoscope, after which the trapped octopus came out.

Two days after the surgery, the 55-year-old patient was discharged from the hospital.

According to the doctors of the hospital, it is normal for people affected by food poisoning to come to them. An endoscope is used in 10 to 20 percent of such cases, while surgery is performed in 1 percent of cases.

It should be noted that in 2016, a similar incident happened with a two-year-old child in the American state of Kansas when he was diagnosed with an octopus stuck in his throat. In this regard, the doctors also saw injury marks on the child’s face, after which a 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abusing the child.