A South African woman has found her wedding ring -- in another woman's stomach -- two years after its loss, a Johannesburg newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The Sowetan report said doctors found the ring in the stomach of a patient last week, almost two years after the owner, Ntombizodwa Thomas of Free State Province, reported it missing.

The patient, surnamed Harris, shared a hospital ward with Thomas in July 2005 for depression, and apparently swallowed her ring, said the newspaper.

Thomas, 39, had one day put her three-band ring on top of the table but later it went missing. The management and staff searched the ward to no avail. Her fellow patient had denied knowledge of the ring.

Her husband, Sipho Thomas, was so furious at the time that he threatened to sue the hospital for loss of the ring and stress to his wife.

Harris was admitted to Vereeniging Medi-Center last week for stomach pains. Doctors operating on her found and removed two parts of the three-band ring. The third part is still missing and it is not known what could have happened to it.

Thomas said she was shocked when the private clinic called to tell her the news.

Source: Xinhua