I think this story mightbe partly fictional!!
In afrika the tetanus vaccination coverage is very low. If someone would have his arm cutoff with a rusty saw the chance of death by bloodloss and tetanus is almost 100%!
The rest seems pretty legit and full of detail and is well written.
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Most of the arm chopping happened in Europe and the States! @groentje . 😆. But thanks for pointing this out.