Thai vets remove nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach

Bangkok (dpa) – A team of Thai veterinary surgeons on Monday successfully removed nearly a thousand coins from a turtle’s stomach, the world’s first such surgery. Five veterinarians at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University conducted a six-hour surgery on Omsin, Thai for “piggy bank,” to remove a total of 915 coins weighing five kilograms from the 59-kilogram female…