Pastor hails 'miracle' after accidentally spearing own face | IOL News

Pastor Connie Hallowell, from eMkhomazi, believes it was a “miracle” that he survived a near-death experience when he accidentally triggered his spear gun and shot himself in the face. Hallowell, 48, the pastor at City Hill Church and an avid scuba diver, was flown to a hospital in Pietermaritzburg where the spear was cut out of his face following the freak incident.

“I put my gun down while I was trying to get some sinkers out of the rocks. A big wave came, and with that wave in action, I tried to remove the gun, and the trigger went off and fired the spear into my face.”“When I tried to move my head, I couldn’t, and I realised it was a spear. I managed to stand up, and I just thought let me stay awake. I screamed for people to help me while I walked back towards the shore.

After that, he was taken to an ambulance and then airlifted to Netcare St Anne’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg where he was operated by a maxillo-­facial and oral surgeon Dr Ciaran Eamon Lalor.

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