India, April 17 -- A routine surgical procedure in Florida has turned into a shocking criminal case after a former surgeon was accused of removing the wrong organ, leading to a patient's death.

Dr Thomas Shaknovsky has been indicted by a grand jury and charged with second-degree manslaughter after authorities said a 2024 operation at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Miramar Beach went fatally wrong.

According to a news report by Fox News, the patient, 70-year-old Bill Bryan from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, died on the operating table due to catastrophic blood loss.

Prosecutors said Bryan was scheduled to undergo a laparoscopic splenectomy, a minimally invasive surgery meant to remove the spleen.

However, during the procedu...