A 13-year-old teenager from New Zealand had parts of his intestines removed after he swallowed up to 100 high-powered magnets purchased online. Doctors performed a major surgery to remove them after the boy suffered stomach pain for four days at Tauranga Hospital on New Zealand’s North Island.

They discovered that the magnets had joined together to form four chains inside his intestines. According to the New Zealand Medical Journal , doctors said that boy had swallowed “approximately 80–100 5x2mm high-power neodymium magnets" a week prior to his hospitalization.

The boy remains unidentified. He was discharged after spending eight days in the hospital.

New Zealand banned the sale of small, high-powered magnets in 2013 after the government warned that children could suffer serious injur

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