BALI: An Australian man has died after being hit by a wave while surfing in central Indonesia, police said, while another Australian surfer remains missing near the holiday island of Bali.
Friends on Friday noticed the 54-year-old Australian man floating some 100 metres from the shore of Sorga beach on the island of Lombok, which lies just east of the popular resort island of Bali, local police chief Arif Budiman said.
The man, who had been staying on Lombok for three days, was still alive but in a “weak condition” when pulled from the water, and died on the way to a local health centre, Budiman said.
Australian consular officials could not be immediately contacted.
Nepal doctors heal shaman
KATHMANDU: Nepalese surgeons removed four metal rods measuring up to 15 centimetres (six inches) from a shaman, or traditional healer, who had swallowed them during a trance, doctors said yesterday.
The shaman, Janak Bahadur Shahi, 47, was brought to a hospital in mountainous Jumla district, 350 kilometres northwest of the capital Kathmandu, on Thursday suffering from stomach pains, fever and vomiting, doctor Naresh Thapa said.
“We pulled out four rods of 12-15 centimetres in length that had punctured the intestine, causing internal bleeding,” Thapa said.
Doctors said he was now out of danger. The shaman, who claims to have swallowed more than 300 metal rods in his lifetime, had ingested four rods two months ago when he was “possessed” by a form of the Hindu’s Shiva, Thapa said.
Shaman healers and mystics are common in Nepal, especially in remote villages.
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