Woman who impaled breast on door handle had to be cut free by firefighters

The 24-year-old victim, who has not been named, still had the handle attached to her inside her home in Wootton Bassett, Wilts. when paramedics arrived.

She was later rushed to hospital after firefighters used hand saws to cut her free.

A spokesman for the Great Western Ambulanbce Service said: "An emergency care practitioner administered morphine which allowed fire crews to detach the handle from the door.

"You have to be so careful with traumas like this as you have no idea how deep the object is inside the woman or what internal damage might have been caused." It was not clear how the accident happened.