A smoothie seller's hand was horrifically mangled in a fruit-crushing machine as he made drinks for customers.
Chupong Ruamsanit set up his stall on the back of his pickup truck selling sugar cane smoothies on Tuesday evening.
While grinding the ingredients to make fresh drinks, the 29-year-old accidentally put his hand near the mechanics.
The businessman, from in Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand, howled in pain as his hand was dragged into the machine, crushing his flesh.
He cut the power but it was too late and his hand and fingers were shredded.
Paramedics arrived and found the end of the vendor's limb were mangled.
They used a hydraulic spreader to pry open the grinder and pull the Chupong's hand out.
He was taken to the hospital where doctors cut the away the damaged fingers which could not be saved.
Surgeon Wanlop Uttama said: "His four fingers were torn apart and his bones were crushed to powder.
"It was so bad that there was no chance of us stitching them back on.
"We had to trim the wound and apply many stitches to save the patient's life, because he had lost a lot of blood from the wound.''
