'Surgery saved my hand after bomb blast'
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Private McCallion, 24, from Dunbartonshire, Scotland, wriggles the thumb and fingers of his left hand and shows how he can close them in a gentle grip. ‘That’s the most I’ve been able to move my fingers in ages,’ he says. ‘After the incident I thought they wouldn’t be able to save my hand.’
The incident was a suicide bomb attack in Kabul on 4 September 2006, the day after his 22nd birthday. Private McCallion had been in Afghanistan for five weeks with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. A...
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