All news on the topic: Horrific injuries

Laura Barajas, from California, had to have both her arms and her legs amputated after picking up a rare bacterial infection from eating undercooked Tilapia fish she had brought from her local market

A child has been attacked by an alligator at Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain, Lincoln Beach - the coastline where the child was bitten has been closed for 60 years

Suellen Pamela de Moura, from Ribeirao Preto in Brazil's Sao Paulo State, had a tummy tuck before she started experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain - and died two days later

Heartbreaking pictures show the impact of the horrific attack against two children, David and Sophia, and their mother, Zhao Zhao, who were brutally beaten with a hammer allegedly by LiYong Ye

Kristie O'Brien had been wading through the shallow waters at Bahia Beach, near Tampa, when she was skewered by the little sea creature. The wound was four inches dead and missed her lung by centimetres

Seventeen-year-old Jennifer Karolayne had just got out of the bath at her home in Monte Castelo, Campina Grande in Brazil's Paraiba state when she suffered a fatal electric shock

WARNING DISTURBING: Kayle Muthart was just 19 when she committed the horrific act of self-mutilation - afterwards she wrote about her experiences and revealed what was going through her head

Around six bar and bat-wielding teens were recorded chasing a man down outside the Guinness Factory in Dublin before they repeatedly bludgeoned him as desperately tried to hold his hands over his head to protect himself

Joannes Matshe, 30, went walking through the Dinokeng Game Reserve in Gauteng, South Africa when a wild lion pounced on him, tearing the skin from his skull and the flesh from his bones in a merciless attack

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Thiago, a five-year-old lad from the Colombian capital of Bogota, had been waiting with his parents when his hand got stuck in the checkout conveyor, which lead to his finger being mangled

A woman in San Diego is suing a waste management company after she was impaled by a garbage truck. Lawyers for Deanna Beck said the driver of the truck was on his phone

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Ilya Mikhalchuk tank column was pounded by Wagner artillery near Bakhmut in February and he was captured by the bloodthirsty mercenaries, who then refused to give him medical treatment until the end of his drug-addled interrogation

Disturbing footage shows two boys and a girl who were headed to the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago sitting together on the tracks attempting to take a selfie before they are shocked with 600 volts

Professional matador Alejandro Conquero, 28, sustained horrendous and irreparable internal injuries after the raging bull gored him in the bottom during the annual Prieto de la Ca in Madrid yesterday

Theo Spears, 14, said his brother flipped over a log when hundreds of bees began swarming the family as his mum yelled out for help at Withrow Nature Preserve in Ohio

A 6-year-old boy suffered 'traumatic injuries' after falling off the Galaxy Spin ride at the Fun Spot America – Kissimmee amusement park in Florida. Rescue crews managed to recover the boy from about 20 feet beneath the ride's track

Officials admitted they were surprised at the exceedingly rare attack in America’s Montana wilderness, adding: "Bears do it, moose too and occasionally a deer, but otters? That's not normal."

Forces veteran Roch Rochester, who was left suicidal and suffered for years with PTSD after being medically discharged said his life was transformed with The Health Lottery funding

Alfredo 'Freddy' Ramirez, 52, the Miami-Dade police director, reportedly suffered a self-inflicted gunshot injury and is in a critical condition in hospital, and undergoing surgery

Texan Michael Kohlhof had to have his hands and feet chopped off after a flea bite saw him contract the incurable Victorian disease of Typhus

The family of Christine Chavez, killed when she was run over by a lawnmower, says they found blood and pieces of her at the scene after police visited the scene

An eight-year-old girl burned by a chicken McNugget has been issued a payout of $800,000 by a jury in Florida. Olivia Caraballo was just four when she was left scarred

Christine Chavez, 27, was lying in a part of Beard Brook Park, in Modesto, California, US, when a landscaper driving a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower horrifically ran her over

Witnesses looked on in horror as the 10-year-old was hurled from the faulty ride at the the Taste of Summer Festival in Antioch, Illinois, and landed on his head

Six-year-old Onyx was in the back of the car on the way home from football practice with her dad, two stepbrothers and stepmother when a group of motorcyclists opened fire, shooting her in the back