DOCTORS have reconnected a 12-year-old boy’s skull to his body after he suffered “internal decapitation” in a freak car accident.
Medics in Jerusalem, Israel, say they performed the “extremely rare” operation on Suleiman Hassan after a car knocked him off his bike.
His skull broke off the top vertebrae in his spine in the hit in June, effectively separating his head from his body with just skin and muscles keeping it in place.
The injury is known as atlanto-occipital dislocation, or internal decapitation.
Surgeons had to act fast to fix the bones back together to protect the spinal cord and save the boy’s life, The Times of Israel reported.