Ananova:

An Italian pensioner got her head stuck in railings in the garden behind her home for two days.

Francesca Bellucci, 78, was only freed when a local greengrocer reported she had not come in to collect her shopping.

She was cut free by fire fighters from the railings which run alongside the stairs outside her home in the southern Italian town of Camerota.

Her local grocer called the emergency services because he was worried about her.

She said she slipped as she went down the stairs and had got her head caught in the railings. None of her neighbours heard her calls for help.

Grocer Alberto Pattacinni said: "She comes in every day without fail to buy food and I was worried something had happened to her."