1.   A nursing supervisor said one of the boys had undergone surgery to reattach a severed ear.

2.   For nearly a month he was in hospital, nursing injuries that included a broken collarbone and a partly severed ear.

3.   In the past three days armed warriors have paraded through their villages carrying severed ears, arms and heads.

4.   The movie begins, famously, with Jeffrey finding a severed ear in a vacant lot and then being drawn into a world of menace and cruelty.

5.   A small child lying face down on a cot holds a severed ear in place with his hands.

6.   The injured children had what the hospital described as deep disfiguring facial lacerations, and one of them had suffered a broken jaw and a severed ear.