A girl has been left traumatised after a bug leaped at her and burrowed into her ear for two days. Tha Rungkasatra, 12, was lying in bed in her room in Thailand when she saw the black bug entering her room on November 10.
Tha panicked as it suddenly jumped on her, landing on her head and crawling into her ear, Australian news agency Austroscope reports.
She screamed as she frantically tried to get the insect out of her ear canal, at which point her 30-year-old mum rushed to her rescue.
She joined her desperate daughter's efforts to remove the bug but then blood "shot out" and the girl was taken to hospital. Recollecting the horrific experience, her mother Jinda said: "The insect flew into her ear.
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