World of the Bizarre

Doctors remove live grenade from man's head

By T.K. Randall
June 11, 2016 ·  14 comments

Grenade launchers work best when not pointed at your own face. Image Credit: PD / USMC The incident, which took place in the northeastern city of Arauca, left the unfortunate soldier in the precarious position of having a live grenade embedded in the side of his skull.

The emergency services deemed it too risky to transport him by helicopter so they instead opted to take him on an eight-hour journey by ambulance to a military hospital in the capital Bogota.Due to the risk of an explosion, doctors set up a makeshift operating theater in the hospital's car park where they painstakingly removed the grenade in a highly nerve-wracking operation.

Fortunately however the device was eventually removed and the soldier's condition has since been described as 'stable'. He is expected to need four more operations to help rebuild his face but should eventually go on to make a full recovery.

Source: News.com.au | Comments (14)

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