The hospital had to be partially evacuated while the 88-year-old man was operated on. Some patients had to be redirected to other hospitals. Deminers had to intervene to prevent any risk of explosion, although the octogenarian assured that the shell was disarmed. Which was the case, but the hospital management preferred not to take any risks.
”We are used to finding unusual objects inserted where they should not be. But a shell? Never !”, testifies a staff member to Var-Matin. The man was therefore operated on and is now fine: the surgeon extracted the machine, 18 centimeters long and 9 cm in circumference, through the patient’s abdomen. “It rarely comes out where it came in”, specifies a source to the French daily.
