SHOCKING images show a Russian prisoner who was left skewered on a huge wooden stake when it pierced through his torso in a freak accident. The inmate - seen strapped to the hospital bed - had the ginormous beam removed and miraculously survived, says reports. The thick beam of wood bayoneted the prisoner, 34, as he operated a timber machine in a jail workhouse in a Nizhny Novgorod penal colony.
The giant stake spun loose and spiked his body from his left midriff to his right chest. Horrific images show the ginormous piece of wood diagonally through the man. The prisoner also appears to be strapped down to the bed at the top of his thighs and both hands.
read more in health He was given immediate first aid at Penal Colony 14. The prisoner, named Nikolai Z, is in a "serious condition" and fighting for his life in hospital following the nightmare accident. But despite "damage to his internal organs", he is reportedly "stable".
A criminal investigation is underway as to how the "accident" happened and whether safety rules were broken, BAZA reports. Most read in Health It comes soon after a man stabbed himself to death while trying to separate two frozen burgers with a knife, an inquest heard. Barry Griffiths, 57, was killed when he plunged the blade into his stomach in a freak accident.
He was discovered several days later by police , who were baffled by the trail of blood around his kitchen and bedroom. Officers then established the frozen burgers were behind the tragedy when t.
