Police in India's Bihar state have arrested three men posing as doctors, who performed botched sterilisation surgery on 53 women in two hours.
The tubectomy operations were carried out in a field and without the use of anaesthesia. Reports in the local media said the group had promised poor village women 600 rupees ($9; £7.50) and free medicines if they came for family planning operations, although it was unclear why.
Source: BBC, 10-01-2012
