Confused medics have removed a three-foot-long cable from a boy 's stomach after he started complaining about nausea and stomach pains.
The 15-year-old boy was taken to hospital by his family in Diyarbakir, south-eastern Turkey.
However, when doctors gave him an X-ray, they were concerned to find a curled-up device inside his stomach.
Medical staff put him in an ambulance and sent him to Firat University Hospital in Elazig, which was a two to three-hour drive away.
When he arrived, paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition department head Professor Yasar Dogan and his team got rid of the foreign object after performing an endoscopy procedure.
They were particularly confused after a hair tie was removed, as well as the long cable.
Dr Dogan told local media: "We obviously had a hard time removing the cable, as one end of the cable had passed into the small intestine."
When it came out, the team was astonished at how long it was, with the cable reaching one metre (three feet) in length when stretched out.
Dr Dogan added: "After the procedure was successfully concluded, the patient was sent home in good health."
The circumstances under which the charging cable and hair tie ended up in the boy's stomach remained unclear.
Meanwhile, last year a toddler had surgery to remove 17 magnetic beads from his stomach after he swallowed them.
Murat Oezdemir, 19 months, was understood to have fallen ill at his home in Pamukkale, Turkey, last week, with terrified family members taking him to Pamukkale University Hospital.
Doctors then performed an X-ray and noticed foreign bodies inside the child's stomach, local media outlet Haberler reports.
An X-ray showed the magnetic beads all stuck together inside the young boy's body.
Local media reported that the beads could often be found at markets where they are sold as toys, although it wasn't clear whether that's where Murat got them.
