Boys fingers reattached

A NINE-HOUR operation to reattach the five fingers lost by a boy from Paphos was successful and he is in a stable condition, doctors said yesterday.

Surgeons at Nicosia’s Makarios Hospital began operating at 9pm on Tuesday night in an attempt to reattach all five fingers on the left hand of 12- year-old Panayiotis Arestis. The fingers had been severed in a freak accident at his father’s Paphos bakery earlier in the evening.

Arestis was taken by police helicopter from Paphos hospital to Nicosia at around 7.30pm on Tuesday, shortly after the accident happened at the Chlorakas bakery.

Panayiotis had been helping his father, Charalambos Arestis, at the family bakery and had gone to cut some bread in the slicer when his hand became caught in the machine.

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