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Vietnamese soldier has bullet stuck in heart for 40 years

Doctors have removed a bullet from the heart of a Vietnamese soldier nearly four decades after he was shot by US troops during the Vietnam war.

Le Dinh Hung, 60, underwent surgery at a Hanoi hospital on Friday and is recovering quickly, said Dr Nguyen Sinh Hien, who spent three hours operating on the patient.

"It is the strangest case that I have ever seen," Dr Hien said. "Normally a person with a bullet in his heart would die immediately if they didn't have surgery right away."

Mr Hung said he now feels much better now and the pain in his chest has eased.

"I was very lucky to survive," he said from his hospital bed. "People believe in their fate and I do too."

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)