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Blast from the Past: Man enters hospital with WWI artefact in his rectum.
Emergency services were plunged into an extraordinary operation late on Febuary 1 after a 24‑year‑old man arrived at Rangueil Hospital, (Toulouse, France) with severe rectal pain, only for the doctors to discovered a live artefact from the First World War that was lodged inside him. The patient was admitted to the Accident and Emergency unit in south‑west France around midnight… Source
Toulouse, France — On a high-voltage night at Rangueil Hospital, a 24-year-old patient caused the partial evacuation and intervention of explosive deactivation experts after presenting himself with a historic projectile lodged in his rectum. The inert shell was surgically removed without incident, and no criminal investigation was opened. It was in the early morning of Saturday, 31 January, to Sunday, 1 February 2026, when the emergency room of …
A man was admitted urgently to a hospital in Toulouse, France, with a highly dangerous object in his body; it was an explosive projectile of the First World War, with a length of approximately 20 centimeters, which was lodged in the patient’s body, a situation that ignited alerts inside the medical center and provoked a strong mobilization in the place. On TV Azteca Puebla we told you the details. What measures were activated in the face of the …
A protective fence was even erected around the hospital. Eventually, the disaster management team managed to defuse the structure.
The medical team of the Rangueil hospital in Toulouse, France, has extracted from the rectum of a 24-year-old man a World War I howitzer (1914-1918), an incident that forced partial evacuation of the health center for safety reasons. Health professionals have explained that these types of situations "are not uncommon", in reference to
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