Breast implants save Israeli's life in rocket attack

JERUSALEM, Aug 16 (Reuters) An Israeli woman's breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a Hizbollah rocket attack during Israel's war with the Lebanese group, a hospital spokesman said on Tuesday.

Doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants, just inches from the 24-year-old's heart.

''She was saved from death,'' said a spokesman for Nahariya Hospital in northern Israel. The woman has been released from hospital.

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