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That sucks: Cockroach lodges in man’s ear

AUSTRALIA: A man in Australia endured a painful hospital visit after a 2cm cockroach burrowed into his ear and his efforts to suck it out with a vacuum cleaner failed.

Darwin-based Hendrik Helmer’s ordeal began in the early hours of Wednesday morning when he was woken by a sharp pain in his right ear, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said.