Nope, not a typo.

This is Pakkirappa Hunagundi. He's a 30 year-old village labourer from Karnataka, western India. And that's a brick.

Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India

Hunagundi says he's been eating up to three kilos of bricks, gravel and mud every day for the last 20 years.

Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India

He generally finds material to eat lying around his village. But, say his neighbours, "he relishes hot charcoal, too, like a snack."

Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India

"We feel very bad. We have tried to convince him many times [to stop], but he does not listen. We have given up now."

Dominic Rodrigous / Barcroft India

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