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| Tina Agustina talks to reporters at a press conference with a doctor from an eye hospital in Cicendo, Bandung, on Thursday. (Antara Photo) |
Bandung.
Indonesian doctors are investigating claims that a teenage girl in Bandung
cries tiny gems instead of tears.
Tina
Agustina claims to have extracted 126 bean-sized gems from her eyes since
September of last year. Video of Tina allegedly producing crystal tears has
been posted to YouTube. The multi-colored jewels shown in the video appeared to
have already been cut and polished before Tina reportedly cried them out.
Stories of
alleged medical oddities are nothing new in Indonesia, where reports of strange "bleeding" diseases, metal wires that grow from a woman's skin and
cancer-curing cigarettes grab headlines.
Doctors at
an eye hospital in Cicendo, Bandung, examined the girl's eyes and found them to
be normal.
“Objective
examination on her eyes shows that everything was good, including sight, the
condition of her eyeballs,” Dr. Hikmat Wangsaatmaja, the head doctor of the
hospital's medical advisory board, said on Thursday.
Doctors
also checked the girl's urine and tears and sent the gems to a geology
laboratory, Hikmat said.
"The
results will come back in two days," the doctor said. "If the gems
were produced by her body [like kidney stones], we would have sent them to a
clinical laboratory. But if they were not from her body, we wouldn't send them
to a clinical laboratory. We have contacted a geology laboratory and have sent
them there."
Tina
visited the hospital on Wednesday, accompanied by her parents and local
officials.
Feeling a
bit tense after the doctor's examination, Tina reportedly cried out four more
gems Wednesday night.
Antara
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