{"id":41961,"date":"2012-05-18T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=41961"},"modified":"2012-05-18T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:13:37","slug":"sri-lankan-woman-bites-off-lovers-penis-doctor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-woman-bites-off-lovers-penis-doctor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Woman Bites Off Lover&#8217;s Penis, Doctor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By AFP\/canada.com-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO &#8211; A Sri Lankan woman bit off the penis of her 30-year-old lover during a row on Friday, a doctor said, as police investigated two other incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The man was rushed to a rural hospital in Andapana, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Colombo, after a quarrel with the 45-year-old female turned violent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41962\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-woman-bites-off-lovers-penis-doctor-says\/penis_operation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41962\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-41962\" title=\"penis_operation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/penis_operation-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/penis_operation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/penis_operation-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;About three-quarters of the penis had been bitten off,&#8221; a doctor told AFP, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stopped the bleeding and sent him to a urologist at Karapitiya (a bigger town nearby) to see if the severed part can be re-attached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A police official in the southern town of Hakmana said the man, identified as Chandana Pradeep, a barber, had argued with the woman after she refused to give him money for alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>Police had said the couple were married, but later said that the victim had told them in a statement that they were lovers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile two other men were also undergoing treatment for injuries to their sex organs at another hospital in the same region. 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