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By John Ogunsemore
A young man sparked a bomb scare at a hospital in France after doctors discovered an unexploded World War I artillery shell lodged in his rectum (anus).
The incident occurred at Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse, where the man arrived complaining of severe pain on January 31, New York Post reports.
El Pais reported that the 24-year-old patient told staff in the Accident and Emergency unit he had inserted an object into his rectum, but did not specify what it was.
Surgeons performed emergency surgery and found an 8-inch-long, 37mm brass-and-copper shell from 1918.
Fearing an explosion, hospital staff halted the surgery and contacted authorities.
Police arrived at the hospital at about 1.40 am local time and called in the local bomb squad.
Disposal experts were said to have determined that the shell had been decommissioned, meaning it posed no immediate danger, before surgery was resumed to safely remove the object.
Military Times reported the object was identified as a relic from the Imperial German Army during the Great War.
In a similar 2021 incident in England, a man had a WWII anti-tank round stuck in his rectum, while an 88-year-old Frenchman in Toulon, arrived at the hospital with a similar shell in the same location in 2022.
