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Kiwi man saws off his finger,eats it

LONDON: In a rare act of self-cannibalism,a man in New Zealand cut off his finger with a small electric saw,cooked it with vegetables,and then ate it up for dinner,a media report said. The 28-year-old man told authorities that he was driven to the bizarre act as he was suffering from severe depression,the Daily Mail reported. Its one of the only eight documented cases of self-cannibalism in the world,in which the man planned to chop off two other fingers too,but eventually decided against it,the newspaper said. He for the first time fantasised about not only killing his assailants,but of eating them too, the Daily Mail quoted a report in the Australasian Psychiatry medical journal as saying.