Doctors in the emergency room at Toulon hospital then told Var-Matin, the south-eastern France news daily, that over the years we “got used to it to find unusual items hidden there where the sun don’t shine An apple, a mango, even a can of shaving cream. But an artillery shell? That had never happened before.”
The newspaper explains that when the doctors checkedactual presence of the bomb in the rectum of the 88-year-old The emergency device was triggered immediately: the hospital management ordered the partial evacuation of the hospital, especially the children and adult emergency areas, and the quarantine, thank you too to help firefighters and security forcesthe emergency room; All new patients were instead diverted to other hospitals in the city due to what they called an “incredible bomb scare”.
“Later – one of the doctors then reported to the newspaper – we treated our atypical patient, who had assured us of this in the meantime the device had been disarmed before use‘ but action was taken nonetheless a bomb squad to assess the actual risk.
When they determined that the risk of explosion was actually very small, the doctors were able to do so remove the artillery shell, which turned out to be a collector’s item: it is a bomb widely used by the French army during the First World War. After the “defuse” the 88-year-old patient was hospitalized: is good and according to the hospital, he’s recovering quickly.