Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital is one of Calcutta's oldest hospitals
A group of junior doctors beat a suspected thief to death at a medical college in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, police say.
The man was tied to a pillar, beaten with bamboo sticks and his penis slashed with a razor.
Police say he was accused of stealing mobile phones. Two people have been detained and an investigation ordered.
Correspondents say the killing highlights the widespread problem of mob lynching in India.
But what is shocking about the latest incident is the involvement of a group of doctors from a leading medical college.
"Preliminary inquiries have revealed that nearly a dozen junior doctors picked up the man on suspicion of stealing mobile phones," Calcutta's deputy commissioner of police Dhrubajyoti De told the AFP news agency.
They dragged the man into a room at the 140-year-old state-run Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital and carried out the attack, before leaving him to die.
"Some of them even slashed him on his private parts," Mr De told AFP, adding that labourers working nearby alerted police to the attack.
"Police found the man lying in a pool of blood. A razor was also seized from the spot," he said.
Mr De said the wounds on the man's body "bear the marks of inhumane torture".
West Bengal deputy health minister Chandrima Bhattacharya has described the incident as "very shocking" and ordered an investigation.
Students at the medical college told The Telegraph newspaper that hostel inmates were angry after repeated thefts.
"Mobile phones and laptops have been stolen from the hostel... There are no guards at the entrance, including at night. Anyone can enter the hostel," a junior doctor told the newspaper.
Facebook is in talks with a London-based satellite technology firm about a ground-breaking bid to prove free internet access in large parts of Africa.
The project, under the social network's Internet.org initiative, is part of founder Mark Zuckerberg's plan to put the developing world online.
In an interview with CNN, Mr Zuckerberg said he wanted 'to put the whole world online'.He said: 'I mean, here, we use things like Facebook to share news and catch up with out friends, but there, they're going to use it to decide what kind of government they want, get access to healthcare for the first time ever, connect with family hundreds of miles away that they haven't seen for decades.
It has been reported the deal with satellite operator Avanti is expected to be announced soon.
Mr Zuckerberg turned to the company after plans to bring the Internet to Africa with mobile operators, including Vodafone, were rejected. A commercial deal with Avanti would mean Facebook could cover swathes of Africa at a relatively low cost, reported The Telegraph.
The company already owns two broadband satellites positioned over the continent and plans to increase coverage by launching a further three in the next few years.
Facebook's Internet.org is aimed to 'bring the Internet to the two thirds of the world's population that doesn't have it'.
Its mission statement says: 'No one should have to choose between access to the Internet and food or medicine.
'Internet.org partners will join forces to develop technology that decreases the cost of delivering data to people worldwide, and helps expand Internet access in underserved communities.'
Internet.org believes if developing economies had the same levels of internet access as in the first world, global productivity would be boosted by 25% and 160million people would be lifted out of poverty.
Recently, Mr Zuckerberg showed his concern for the plight of Africans by provided a tool on his social network allowing users to donate to organizations working to fight Ebola.
He also provided internet connectivity in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to help medical and aid workers track cases and co-ordinate their response.
Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny
Three people charged with killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make and sell stuffed pastries have gone on trial in Brazil.
Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires and mistress Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva were arrested in April 2012 in the city of Garanhuns.
They allegedly confessed to luring women to their house between 2008 and 2012 by promising them a job as a nanny.
They killed their victims and stuffed their flesh into meat pies which they sold to neighbours, schools and hospitals claiming they contained tuna or chicken.
Police found the remains of two women in the back yard of the suspects' house.
At the time of their arrest they told police they belonged to a sect that preached 'the purification of the world and the reduction of its population'.
In chilling echoes of the film Sweeney Todd, authorities said the trio made thick empada pastries with the flesh of their victims, which the three and a young child who lived with the man and wife ate.
They also sold some of the pastries to some neighbours as well as to schools and hospitals claiming they contained tuna and chicken.
Shortly after their arrest, police found a 50-page book titled Revelations Of A Schizophrenic, written by Silveira. In it, he said he heard voices and was obsessed with killing women.
The G1 news site quoted Silveira as saying during the trial's opening: 'I committed a horrible, monstrous mistake. It was a moment of extreme weakness and brutality that I regret.'
Their victims, believed to have been killed between 2008 and 2012, include Alexandra Falcao, 20, police said.
Silviera also described the death of Jessica Camila da Silva Pereira, a 17-year-old murdered in 2008.
Police were alerted to the murders when the trio attempted to use a credit card of one of their alleged victims. The trio now face up to 30 years in prison.
Their trial, which started on Thursday, continues.
Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva, who lived with the couple, was Silveira's mistress and is accused of helping the couple kill their victims and eating the pastries
Gruesome: Police found the remains of two women in the back yard of the suspects' house (pictured)
Chilling: In chilling echoes of the film Sweeney Todd, authorities said the trio made thick empada pastries (stock image) with the flesh of their victims, which the three and a young child who lived with them ate
Shortly after their arrest, police found a 50-page book titled Revelations Of A Schizophrenic, written by Silveira. In it, he said he heard voices and was obsessed with killing women
First time ever: Mr Kosen and Mr Dangi met to commemorate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day
It was a meeting of epic proportions.
The world's tallest and shortest men met for the first time this morning to commemorate Guinness World Record Day.
Sultan Kösen, who is 8ft 1in. tall, and Chandra Dangi, who measures just 21.5ins., posed for photos outside the Houses of Parliament to mark the book's 60th anniversary.
The two men join hundreds of others who are taking part in a number of record attempts across the world to celebrate the occasion.
The annual broke a record of its own in 2004 when it became the world's best-selling copyright book. Guinness World Record Day was set up to commemorate the date.
Mr Dangi, who measures just 22.5 ins, and 8ft 1in tall Mr Kosen, meet in London yesterday
Mr Kösen, 31, from Ankara, Turkey, became the world's tallest living man in 2009, when he took the title from 63-year-old Xi Shun, from China, who measured 7 ft 8.95 ins. in 2005.
Mr Kösen, a part-time farmer, was the first man over 8ft to be measured by the company in over 20 years - and one of only 10 people on record to break the height barrier.
Mr Kösen also holds the record for largest hands of a living person, each one measuring 11.22 in from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger.
And he previously held the record for largest feet on a living person, with his left foot measuring 1 ft 2 ins and right foot measuring 1 ft 1.98 ins.
Mr Kosen, pictured with Mr Dangi also holds the record for the largest hands of a living person
Speaking at the time of his entry into the Guinness World Records, he said: 'I never imagined I would be in the book, I dreamed about it, but it was still a huge surprise'.
Mr Dangi, who lives in the isolated Nepalese village of Reemkholi, some 335miles southwest of Kathmandu, is the shortest adult human to have their height verified by Guinness.
At just 21.5ins, Mr Dangi is the same size as six cans of baked beans stacked on top of each other. He beat the benchmark set by Gul Mohammed, from New Delhi, India, who measured 22.5ins.
Three of his five brothers were less than four feet tall, while his two sisters and two brothers are of average height.
Record-breakers: 373 people dressed as penguins gathered near Tower Bridge to be counted by Guinness
Charity: The playful record attempt was organised by the Richard House Children's Hospice in London
Other world record attempts that are taking place today include the farthest basketball shot backwards and the most people eating breakfast in bed.
Last night, hundreds of people gathered near London's Tower Bridge to break the record of the largest gathering of people dressed as penguins.
Organised by the Richard House Children's Hospice, the record breaking charity event was verified by a Guinness World Record official who counted 373 people dressed as the birds.
The previous record was 325 participants.
The group then waddled around a 2km course taking in sights such as the Tower of London, the Shard, City Hall and Tower Bridge.
Connected?: Sgt. Val Lewis (left) died in the Beirut barracks bombing in October 1983. Virginia Beach boy Andrew Lucas has been recounting details of the Marine's death recently, his mother claims
A Virginia mom has come to believe the ghost of a US Marine who was killed over 30 years ago in a terror attack is somehow now possessing her four-year-old son.
Michele Lucas of Virginia Beach claims her son Andrew has been recalling the story of Sgt. Val Lewis, a soldier who died in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.
Lucas told WTKR-TV it started when the toddler began talking about things no child his age should, beginning with saying he used to live at 860 Main Street in Sumter, Georgia.
Lucas began researching herself but couldn't work out what Andrew was talking to, however the behavior only increased.She started suspecting there was a spirit living inside her son, she told WTKR, and reached out to the creators of television show Ghost Inside My Child.
'He just starts crying hysterically and I say “What’s wrong Andrew?” and he says, “Why did you let me die in that fire?' Lucas told the station.
The show producers investigated further and apparently connected the things Andrew was saying with the story of Sgt. Lewis, using the address and the fire.
The Beirut barrack bombings killed over 300 people, including 241 American servicemen - among them Sgt. Lewis - during the Lebanese Civil War.
They showed the boy pictures of Sgt. Lewis and some of his Marine friends, who Andrew seemed to recognize and was able to talk about.Lucas decided to take her son to the Georgia gravesite of Sgt. Lewis in the hope it might bring him some closure.
She said he walked straight up to the headstone and placed flowers atop of it, before taking off for another grave nearby, which he said was one of his friends.
The strange occurrences continued when the family returned to Virginia Beach.
'About two weeks ago, there was an emblem on my wall and it was like somebody went up to it and turned it, and it went right back,' Lucas told WTKR.So it’s kind of creeping me out.
'I don’t know if I’ve picked up spirits while I was in the graveyard.
'I don’t know.'
Lucas said her next step is to see a psychic, hoping they will able to give her better answers.
'Is my house haunted? Is my child haunted?' she said.
'I don’t know.'
Scared: Michele Lucas says she's searching for answers for her son's strange behavior, including asking her why she let him die in a fire
Sgt. Val Lewis (left) died in the Beirut barracks bombing in October 1983
Closure: Andrew's parents believed taking him to visit the grave site of Sgt. Lewis may help him find closure, however they say his behavior was just as strange
Scene: Michele Lucas is now wondering if her Virginia Beach house is haunted
From right to left, Robert O'Neill and Osama Bin Laden (inset - Bin Laden's compound after the May 2, 2011 attacks)
Details have emerged on how a former Navy SEAL, Robert O'Neill shot the late Osama Bin Laden in cold blood not minding the fact that the latter was unarmed and had shown no signs of resistance on that fateful day when he was surrounded by the American soldiers.
O'Neill appeared in his first television interview Tuesday night to detail the historic raid in which he shot dead Osama Bin Laden, and told how he was the last person that the elusive al-Qaeda leader ever saw.
In a two-part interview with Fox News, which concludes Wednesday night, O'Neill said: 'If it was light enough, I was the last person he saw.'
He revealed that he looked Bin Laden straight in the eyes before he shot him dead.
O'Neill said: 'He was standing there two feet in front of me, hand on his wife, the face I’ve seen thousands of times. I thought, "We got him, we just ended the war."'
Watch video of the interview here
Target: O'Neill was the SEAL to fire the three bullets that killed the terrorist leader (left) who organized the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The shirt O'Neill wore on the mission pictured right, at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York City
Highly decorated O'Neill also talks about his unlikely journey from delivering pizzas in Butte, Montana to joining SEAL Team Six, the elite group which also staged the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.
The 38-year-old also recalls his last phone call to his father, and the emotional letters he wrote to his then-wife and children, certain that he would either be killed or taken prisoner in the risky raid ordered by President Obama on May 2, 2011.
While his three bullets helped bring closure to the many Americans who lost loved ones at the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, that moment continues to torment O'Neill every day.
'I'm still trying to figure out if it's the best thing I ever did, or the worst thing I ever did,' O'Neill told Fox News' Peter Doocy Tuesday night.
While O'Neill is proud that he was a 'big part' of the successful mission that brought Bin Laden's reign of terror to an end, he remains hesitant on how that monumental action will impact his life in the long term.
I don't know what's going to happen. I did something I'm going to have to live with every day.
'I don't know what's going to happen,' he said. 'I did something I'm going to have to live with every day.'
Last year, a still-anonymous O'Neill gave his first interview to Esquire, telling how the events of that night led to his marriage unraveling and his early retirement from the SEALs.
But O'Neill spoke with nothing but pride on Tuesday when he detailed the rigorous training that went into joining the elite amphibious Navy squad and the immense sense of satisfaction he got when he was chosen to participate in Operation Neptune's Spear.
O'Neill was with his team in Miami for diving training in 2011 when he and a several other senior SEALs got the call to deploy for a special mission.
At first, military officials only gave the team a vague understanding of the mission, leading them to believe they were going to Libya to capture Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi since it was around the time of the Arab Spring.
The Compound: O'Neill says his team was given only a vague idea of their mission at first, so they believed they were being dispatched to Libya to capture hen-dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Above, the scene outside Bin Laden's compound after the May 2, 2011 attacks
But eventually it dawned on the team that they could be after a much bigger target, someone who had evaded capture for nearly a decade.
The team was trained for the mission on a replica of the Abbottabad compound where it was believed bin Laden was hiding.
The plan was to split the group up, with some SEALs being dropped off inside the walls of the compound, another team outside and others on the roof so that they could raid the house from top to bottom and ensure security from the neighboring community.
According to initial assignments, O'Neill was to be the team leader for the group stationed outside the compound for security.
But when he learned from the CIA agent who discovered the compound that Bin Laden would most likely be on the top floor, he volunteered to give up his leadership position and take up the riskiest part of the raid - being dropped on the roof to engage in a shootout with the notorious terrorist from the third-floor balcony.
O'Neill called the team the 'Martyr's brigade' and that nearly everyone wrote letters home to their family, believing they wouldn't be coming home.
Last words: O'Neill called his dad and wrote his then-wife and children letters, believing Operation Neptune's Spear would be a one-way mission, either ending in his death or capture by the Pakistanis
'The more we trained on it, the more we realized this is going to be a one-way mission,' O'Neill said.
However, he says he and the team looked at the situation positively, believing it was a worthy last act to bring down Bin Laden with them.
'It was more of a we're going to die eventually and this is a good way to go....we’re at war because of this guy and now we’re going to go get him.'
The more we trained on it, the more we realized this is going to be a one-way mission.
In his letters home to his wife and children, O'Neill apologized for dying in what he called the most important military operation 'since Washington crossed the Delaware'.
To his kids, O'Neill says he wrote about their weddings 'wishing them happiness' and to take care of their mother. He also apologized for not being around more when they were growing up, due to his job.
The first thing he did when he got home after the raid was shred those letters. He says he's still not sure if he's happy about the decision to destroy the heartfelt last words, but says they are irrelevant any way since he survived.
'I didn’t want to read them. I didn’t want anyone reading them,' he said. 'Instead of something horrible happening something great happened instead.'
One of the last things he did before boarding a helicopter into Pakistan to carry out the raid on the Abbottabad compound was call his father.
Life as a SEAL: Before he joined SEAL Team Six, O'Neill was a member of SEAL Team Two, which continually avoided deployments in the Middle East. He decided to transfer to SEAL Team Six to have more of a role in the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
He says he told his father he was just checking in on him, but added how nice it was to get to know him. During the call, O'Neill says he wasn't sad, but more excited about the coming action.
His father on the other hand, was driving to WalMart at the time of the call and realized something was off when he hung up. He could get out of his truck for 20 minutes after the strange call, and was paralyzed with fear as he entered the store. Hours later, the first news reports came in about the raid, and he knew his son was involved.
Before boarding the helicopter, O'Neill says he and the rest of the departing teams were greeted on the tarmac by military officials and their fellow SEALs staying behind for one last long goodbye. He says everyone got in as much hugs as possible, knowing it may be the last for any one of them.
On the way into Pakistan, O'Neill tried to remain calm by counting backwards and fowards in his head and that's when he suddenly remembered President George W Bush's speech after September 11: 'Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.'
It was those words that O'Neill recalled over and over again in his head in the minutes before the raid, the full details of which he will speak about tomorrow night at 10pm.
In Tuesday's interview, O'Neill also brought Doocy to his hometown of Butte, Montana, taking the reporter around to his favorite bars and restaurants to talk about his childhood full of hunting trips and high school basketball games and how he joined the Navy in the first place.
Life-long hunter: After making it through SEAL training in 1996, O'Neill was trained as a sniper due to his expertise shooting which he honed hunting with his father back in Montana
Heartbroken: O'Neill says he joined the Navy as a way to get out of Montana after a nasty break-up. Pictured above with a former girlfriend
He says he had attended just one year of college in the mid-1990s when he broke up with a girlfriend and wanted to find a way out of town fast.
O'Neill was delivering pizzas at the time, when he walked into a Navy recruitment center, hoping to find directions to the nearest Marines office because they had 'the best uniforms' in the military.
But the recruiting officer convinced O'Neill to join the Navy, saying he could be a SEAL, leaving out how difficult it was to be selected for training in the amphibious division - especially since O'Neill had only a basic knowledge of swimming.
In January 1996, he finally arrived at Navy basic training camp and then went on to SEALs training with it's notoriously hellish conditioning exercises - including a swimming test in which candidates' feet and arms are bound.
But O'Neill says the worst part of training was attempting a 5.5 mile swim against the current, only to be told to do it again the next day which he says was 'probably the meanest thing anyone has ever done to me.'
O'Neill was one the hardened candidates to graduate from SEAL school, and he then went on with his first assignment to SEAL Team Two where he was trained as a sniper thanks to his youth spent hunting with his father.
While his first few years in the military were during times of peace, everything changed the morning of September 11, 2001. At the time he was stationed in Germany, and was checking emails that day when a breaking news bulletin came up on one of the TVs in the operations room.
At war: While O'Neill's career in the Navy started off in relatively peaceful times, that changed with the September 11 attacks. O'Neill was stationed in Germany at the time and remembers the name 'Bin Laden' being thrown around just seconds after the second plane struck the twin towers
Withing 30 seconds of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center towers, O'Neill says he heard the name 'Bin Laden' being thrown around.
'We knew everything had just changed. We didn’t know what was going to happen it was a shot in the gut it was painful and it was infuriating.'
After that, O'Neill and his fellow SEALs were anxious to get to Afghanistan to target the terrorist cells behind the attack, but continually Team Two kept being sent to different operations around the world. That's when he decided to transfer to SEAL Team Six, which was regularly engaged in the Middle East.
By the time he joined the elite squad, the group was carrying out missions six days out of the week, rounding up low-level terrorists mostly guilty of making IEDs.
He says during those missions, he and the others SEALs started to ask where Bin Laden was just out of boredom.
'They would laugh and then we would laugh. They would say "you’re never going to find him."
Speaking success: O'Neill is now a high-profile member of the motivational speaking circuit, openly revealing that he was a SEAL - but until now not declaring that he was involved in the daring raid which killed Bin Laden
It was also before the iconic raid that O'Neill participated in the now famous rescue of American Captain Richard Phillips, who in April 2009 was captured by pirates sailing off the coast of Somalia.
He and the rest of SEAL Team Six were at home in the United States at the time, when they got the call to deploy after the Maersk Alabama was overtaken by the pirates.
O'Neill says he got the call to leave on Good Friday, his birthday, when he was at a pre-school tea party for one of his children.
Before reporting for duty, O'Neill recalls the funny moment he stopped by a 7-Eleven to pick of some tobacco when he got was stuck behind an especially slow man in line.
He says the man bought a USA Today and slammed the newspaper on the counter, getting 'all patriotic' and saying how he wished 'someone would do something about this [captain]'.
'If you hurry up and pay for your stuff we will!' O'Neill recalled thinking.
O'Neill was one of dozens of SEALs who parachuted out over the Indian Ocean to rescue to the captain, as depicted in the move Captain Phillips.
He says the 'movie made it look cool' but it wasn't their plan to kill any of the pirates.
'We weren't going there to kill anyone. We were just trying to get our guy back,' he said.
Salazar Solano shows his injuries to his arms and body after surviving for two days in the Pacific Ocean by clinging to a Styrofoam ice box until the Colombian Navy plucked him from the water
A shipwrecked fisherman who miraculously survived in the Pacific Ocean by clinging
to a foam icebox for two days has revealed how he was just minutes from drowning
when he was rescued.
Father-of-five Salazar Solano was plucked from the water in a 'terrible' state by the Colombian Navy some 20 miles off the coast after his small fishing boat capsized.
He spent the two freezing nights clutching the cover of a Styrofoam drinks cooler after deciding not to take lifejackets apparently because they were deemed too expensive
and unnecessary.
Speaking to MailOnline while recovering at home in his fishing village of
Bocagrande, Mr Solano says his entire body aches and still feels seasick,
but is thrilled to be alive.
'I was about to die,' he said. 'I couldn't hold out any longer.'
The 47-year-old and a friend, Tomás Contreras, set sail from the town of Lopez
in the south of the country on Friday, October 31, but came into difficulties in
stormy conditions.
By 1am on Saturday, Mr Solano and Mr Contreras hauled up their nets and filled
the ice box with red snapper.
But then the 22ft-long fibreglass boat began filling with water due to high waves
and, possibly, a leak.
The two men tried to bail out the water, but it came in even faster and the boat
sagged to one side.
They tried to jerry-rig a sail out of a tarp to catch the wind and right the boat, but it was too late.
Mr Solano had bothered to take a lifejacket because he felt he was a very good swimmer.
Alexis Bonilla, another fisherman from Bocagrande, also said hardly anyone in the village owns a lifejacket because they are expensive and – when all goes well - unnecessary.
Instead, Mr Solano grabbed the cover of the Styrofoam ice box, broke in in two, gave one piece to Mr Contreras and clung to the other.
Incredible: Video footage released by the Colombian Navy captures the exact moment sailors spotted Mr Solano floating in the open ocean tied to the buoyant icebox
He also removed his belt and, with a flashlight, fashioned himself a headlamp. Then the boat went down.
At that time, they were only a few miles off the coast but, in the dark, they couldn't get their bearings to swim in the right direction.
By sunrise on Saturday, they realised they were going the wrong way.
'The current kept taking us farther out to sea,' Solano said. 'We could no longer see the shore. We were both swimming and both getting tired.'
The Colombian Navy has an emergency telephone line for such cases.
Its vessels are constantly patrolling the Pacific coast often in search of drug traffickers who move cocaine to Central America and Mexico in fast boats and even homemade submarines.
This coastal region is remote and nearly road-less thus people get around on ferries, speed boats and canoes.
Salazar Solano, 47, survived two nights in the open ocean by clinging to a Styrofoam icebox
Mr Solano was rushed back to short and taken to hospital, but despite his near-death ordeal, was found to be suffering from nothing but dehydration. He is expected to make a full recovery
When motors break down or vessels run aground, the Navy is often called in to pick up marooned passengers.
But Mr Solano and Mr Contreras had told family members that they expected to return home late Sunday, so no-one in Bocagrande thought to call the Navy's rescue line.
By Sunday morning, with Mr Contreras growing weaker, the two men drifted apart and Mr Solano lost track of his fishing partner.
Now 22 nautical miles off shore, he prepared for the end.
'My life was nothing,' Mr Solano said. 'What mattered to me was my family'.
By sheer coincidence, the Colombian Navy's ARC Nariño corvette was at that moment plowing through the sea nearby.
Just before midday, the ship's spotters, who are on deck 24 hours a day, in part, to avoid accidents with tiny fishing boats, spied something suspicious floating in the water.
Solano saw the Naval vessel and started yelling.
'The ship was not on a mission to look for him,' says Lt. José Dominguez, a Navy press officer.
'It was out patrolling, doing normal operations like looking for drug boats. It was almost a miracle that we found him.'
Incredible video footage released by the Colombian Navy captures the exact moment sailors spotted Mr Solano floating in the open ocean.Sailors tossed him a flotation device, but by that point he was too weak to swim for it.
A Navy diver jumped in to help the bedraggled castaway who was still grasping the ice box cover.
Clad in a T-shirt, green short and his homemade headlamp, the exhausted survivor was hoisted aboard on a stretcher.
'He was in terrible condition,' said Captain Orlando Cubillos, the ship's commander. 'We got there just in time.'
Solano was taken to a Navy hospital and treated for dehydration and sunburn. Then, he caught a boat back to Bocagrande where villagers had no idea he'd almost died.
It was a bittersweet homecoming because Contreras is still missing. Solano, who is taking antibiotics, remains weak but is expected to recover.
'Fishing is his life,' said Lt. Dominguez, of the by-the-book Navy, who frowns at Solano's disregard for safety but marvels at his resourcefulness. 'He is a sea wolf.'
Solano's story has captivated Colombia where maritime lore is rife with miraculous tales of survival.
The most famous incident involved the sinking of a Navy ship overloaded with contraband and its sole survivor, a sailor who climbed aboard a life raft then fought off thirst, sharks and the blazing sun for the next 10 days.
Published in 1955 in daily newspaper installments, 'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor' was written by an aspiring Colombian novelist named Gabriel García Márquez.
Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital is one of Calcutta's oldest hospitals
