The knife wounds on her neck were leaking blood and had started to rot when 27-year-old Hitesh Devi was brought to the emergency room at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital. Time was running out fast and it took 12 hours for her to get to Delhi, diminishing chances of survival. 'I THOUGHT I WAS DEAD, BUT TODAY I CAN EVEN SPEAK'"Somebody had stabbed me multiple times over the neck from behind," Hitesh told MAIL TODAY. "I was unconscious when I reached Safdarjung Hospital. "The main crux was to repair the cut thyroid cartilage without further damaging the vocal cords," said Dr Singh, terming it a penetrating zone II neck trauma.

Source: India Today March 28, 2017 00:22 UTC