Teen speared through eye socket will recover fully

AUSTRALIAN teenager Shafique el-Fahkri survived an attack in which he was speared through his left eye socket by a metal chair leg.

Surgeons in Melbourne successfully removed the metal, which was embedded four inches through the 19-year-old’s head to his neck where it had partially severed an artery.

The injury was sustained in a brawl in the city outside a nightclub. Firemen cut the chair away from Mr El-Fahkri’s head at the scene.