Little did a 17-year-old girl suspect that the 'crunchy' bits in her chocolate bar would turn out to be glass shards.

Nurul Huda Megat Ahmad, 17, from Damansara Damai, Kuala Lumpur, had bought the chocolate at a supermarket near her house on Saturday and took a piece to eat at about 8pm yesterday.

"I felt something crunchy like sand, but continued eating it. When my throat hurt, I looked at the remaining chocolate in my hand and noticed a piece of glass, the size of a thumb, in it," she was quoted as saying by Bernama .

Nurul said she then informed her father who rushed her to a clinic.

Police reports filed

Her father, Megat Ahmad Megat Khalid, 55, said he took his daughter to the clinic at about 10.30pm yesterday and was told by the doctor there to bring Nurul to the Sungai Buloh Hospital for further treatment after an x-ray scan showed "something" in her throat.

"However, the shards of glass which Nurul Huda swallowed will only come out when she empties her bowel," he added.

Megat Ahmad said his daughter’s throat was healing and hoped that the glass shards would not affect her digestive system.

He said he had lodged two police reports, one at the Sungai Buloh police station early today and another at the Sungai Buloh Hospital's police booth at 12.30pm, and would decide later whether or not to take legal action against the chocolate manufacturer.

Gombak district police chief ACP Rahim Abdullah confirmed receiving the reports.