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Veterinarians laboured for seven hours to remove 915 coins weighing five kilogrammes from a sea turtle suffering chronic stomach ache.

“It is hard to imagine how it swallowed such a large number of coins. I've never seen such a case before," said Pasakorn Brikshavana, of Chulalongkorn University's faculty of veterinary science.

They spent seven hours helping "Om Sin", half of the time scooping out the coins -- both local and foreign -- from its stomach.

The surgeons did not expect the surgery on the unfortunate ailing turtle to take so long - until faced with the huge coin cache in its stomach, which required a bigger cut than they originally planned.

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