A French hospital was forced to evacuate after medical staff discovered an unexploded artillery shell from WWI lodged inside a man’s backside.
Bomb disposal experts rushed for Toulouse’s Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit after medics unveiled the eight-inch-long ordnance while performing surgery.
The 24-year-old patient had come to the hospital the night before in throes of pain, though he didn’t let on to medical staff exactly what he had done.
After surgery, medics were astounded to discover that the cause of such pain was an unexploded ordnance from 1918.
Despite being over a century old, such a weapon can still explode.
The shell was diffused quickly by bomb disposal experts, with the fire brigade at hand.
In 2022, another hospital in Southeast France was evacuated after an 88-year-old patient did the same thing — probably put aside in France’s annual “iron harvest”, in which French farmers gather materials from the two world wars which show up in their fields.
