Firemen rescue man’s foot from commode
By Asif Fuard
A 26-year-old man who had used the public toilet at Colombo’s Unity Plaza Complex in Bambalapitiya, had his foot stuck in the commode for several hours yesterday until rescued by the Fire Brigade.

The man had attended to certain personal matters and visited the toilet. Somehow his leg had got stuck in the commode and he began crying for help. Hours later a person forced open the door to help, failing which he called the Fire Brigade. Firemen broke the commode to release the man’s foot.

The young man was sent on a stretcher to the Colombo General Hospital where his foot is being treated. He has suffered a sever cut and is to undergo surgery. The man told hospital staff that he slipped and got his foot stuck in the commode.

He is believed to have squat on the commode. “It was indeed a rare incident,” a Fire Brigade spokesperson told The Sunday Times last night.

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