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Medics examining a pregnant woman who arrived at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, bleeding heavily from the head found that the cause was a two-inch (5cm) nail hammered into her skull. The woman said that she had been advised by a local “healer” to recite specific chants while hammering a nail into her head to ensure that her unborn child was a boy. “She said that a woman in her locality did the same and gave birth to a boy even though the ultrasound had shown her unborn child to be a girl,” said a doctor. The woman already had four daughters and was desperate for a son as her husband had threatened to leave her if she had another daughter; she had not, though, had an ultrasound

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