Indore, April 9 A routine task of cleaning a home aquarium turned into a medical emergency for a family in Indore when a fish jumped into their toddler's throat.
Doctors surgically removed the fish from the one-year-old boy, officials said on Thursday.
The unusual incident occurred on April 3, when the child's older siblings were cleaning their aquarium and playing with ornamental fish kept in a net.
A fish suddenly jumped out of the net and fell into the toddler's mouth while he was laughing loudly, officials said.
Panicked family members rushed the boy to the Government Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital (MYH).
Head of the ENT department at MYH, Dr Yamini Gupta, told