Farmer drove three miles with severed hand

A farmer who accidentally sliced off his hand packed it in his lunchbox, climbed in his tractor and drove three miles home.

His wife put the severed hand in the fridge and it was later successfully reattached by surgeons in hospital.

Austrian Gerhard Frank, 64, had been using an automatic log splitter in a field three miles from his farm in the village of Steeg.