New Delhi, Dec 13 (PTI) Injured national-level shooter Pushpender might be staring at a bleak future, or possibly competing in the para category after suffering grievous injuries to his left thumb in a freak mishap while filling his air pistol cylinder with compressed air a few days back.

Pushpender, 31, was training at a private shooting range in Greenfield, Faridabad on December 2 for the National championships in Bhopal when the pistol’s gas cylinder exploded when he was refilling it from the main cylinder, resulting in half of his left thumb getting “completely smashed”.

“There is no possibility of reconstruction of the thumb as it has got smashed completely,” Pushpender told

Source: PTI News