A high school boy is unconscious in hospital after an umbrella that a classmate was swinging in their classroom broke, flying into his left eye, school officials said Saturday.
At around 3:50 p.m. on Friday, a 16-year-old student at private Toin Gakuen High School in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, was swinging around an umbrella like a baseball bat in a classroom when it came loose from its handle, according to the officials, sticking into the victim’s left eye.
The 16-year-old victim was rushed to a hospital where he remains unconscious. Doctors diagnosed him as suffering from brain injuries and damage to his left eyeball.