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Unusual deployment for the staff of a French hospital: because an 88-year-old had a grenade in his intestines, the clinic had to be partially evacuated.
As the local newspaper Var Matin reports, the senior appeared in the emergency room of the Sainte-Musse hospital in Toulon, southern France, on Saturday evening.
The man said he had a grenade in his rectum.
Although he assured that this was not dangerous, the clinic management took precautionary measures.
Surrounding areas of the hospital were evacuated and patients were diverted to other hospitals.
According to the newspaper, the requested explosives experts were able to identify the approximately 20 centimeters long projectile with a diameter of almost six centimeters as a harmless collector's item from the First World War.
The senior was then operated on in the abdomen and is now doing well.
"An apple, a mango or even a can of shaving cream: we're used to finding unusual objects in the wrong places," Var Matin quotes a hospital employee as saying.
'But a grenade?
Never!” Until now.
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