Chopstick pulled from girl’s brain

A 3-year-old girl who toppled from a stool she was standing on while eating was almost killed when a chopstick pierced her throat and entered her brain in Kunming on July 14. The girl, nicknamed Ping Ping, was rushed to a hospital, where it took doctors six hours to remove the broken chopstick. Ping Ping is in stable condition and expected to be dis-