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Tamara Davison

Hospital evacuated as 'man found to have WW1 artillery shell in rectum'

A French hospital was reportedly forced to evacuate in dramatic scenes after medical staff discovered an unexploded WW1 artillery shell stuck in a man’s rectum.

On Saturday, bomb disposal experts were called to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse after medics discovered the eight-inch-long ordnance while performing surgery.

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