Argentine boy saved from stray bullet from the crucifix

Several hours before the start of 2021, a 9-year-old Argentine boy was saved from a stray bullet by a small metal crucifix in his chest, an event that local media have called a "New Year's miracle."

According to a report by the police office of San Miguel de Tucumán, capital of the north-western province of Tucumán, "the event took place around 22pm on December 00, 31: a 2020-year-old boy named Tiziano, from the neighborhood of Las Talitas, hospitalized with his father in the emergency room of Baby Jesus Hospital in the southern part of the capital with a superficial wound in the chest, produced by a firearm “.

"After being thoroughly checked by several staff doctors for 48 minutes, the boy was released," the report said.

Tiziano's family contacted José Romero Silva, a journalist from Telefé, on January 1, to explain how the boy's life was saved: the bullet hit the center of the small metal crucifix that the boy received as a gift from his father. Titian's aunt sent Silva a photo of how the bullet damaged the crucifix, which prevented the bullet from causing any real damage, except for a minor superficial wound.

Silva shared the image on his Twitter account, writing: “New Year's miracle: yesterday, a few minutes before 00 hours, a stray bullet hit the chest of a boy from Las Talitas. But he hit a crucifix that the minor wore "