Objects such as mangalsutra, bangles and iron nails, weighing around 1.5 kg in total, were removed from the stomach of a mentally-ill woman after a surgery at the civil hospital here, a senior doctor said Tuesday. The woman, identified as Sangita, is in her mid-40s and suffers from 'acuphagia', a rare disorder which causes the person to eat metallic objects, the doctor said.

Iron nails, nuts and bolts, safety pins, U-pins, hairpins, bracelets, chains, mangalsutra, copper ring and bangles among other things were taken out of her stomach after the operation which lasted for over two hours, said Dr. Nitin Parmar of the hospital. She was brought to the civil hospital from a government-run mental hospital where she had been admitted after being found wandering in the city streets, he said.