After a man in Patna died of a bullet injury, his left eye went missing as his body lay on a bed in the hospital. While the grief-stricken family accused the hospital of taking out the eye ...

PATNA: One eye of a man who was shot at was found missing hours after his death at a state-run hospital in the Bihar capital, with doctors blaming rats for gnawing it and the deceased's family ...

A swab was taken and the man was kept in hospital while antibiotics ... Doctors rushed him into surgery, where they found necrotic [dead] tissue around his eye, nose and neck.

The first patient, a 65 year old man, was diagnosed with streptococcus ... developing white lesions around his eye overnight. Surgeons discovered necrotic [dead] tissue around his eye, nose ...