It costs more than arm and leg

– A Vietnamese woman paid a friend to cut off her hand and foot in a bid to claim a handsome insurance payout, a report said this week.

The woman, identified only as LTN, checked into a Hanoi hospital in May with one third of her left foot and one third of her left hand severed, but doctors told her they could not reattach the limbs.

She later told police she was struck by a train as she walked on the tracks.

The 30-year-old submitted a claim to her insurance company for $157 000 (R2 million).

But authorities smelled a fraud. – AFP