Lucknow, Nov 7 (PTI) In a miracle of sorts, a 21-year-old youth who had suffered serious injuries in his left eye from a protruding rod was saved after a five-hour long operation at the Chatrapati Sahuji Mahraj Medical University (CSMMU) here.

Mahesh, an electrician, while returning home had met with an accident in which an iron rod attached to the steel guard in the front bumper of the tempo pierced into his left eye.

After the rod was cut off with gas cutters at the accident site, Mahesh was taken to the trauma centre of CSSMU where he was referred to the neurosurgery department of the hospital.

Doctors, who had performed the operation yesterday, said the rod had gone four inches deep but had stopped short of piercing the brain tissues.

The patient's post operation behaviour suggested that there had been no damage to the brain, they added.