Colombia's doctors remove live grenade from man's face
Colombia's doctors remove live grenade from man's face
Surgeons in Arauca, in the eastern part of the country, have taken out a live grenade lodged inside a soldier's face. But the man will need extensive reconstructive surgery.
11.06.2016
The soldier, Leandro Jose Luna, was patrolling in Arauca, when his colleague accidentally fired a grenade launcher and the projectile lodged itself in Luna's head.
Taking him by helicopter was too dangerous, so an ambulance transported the soldier to the capital Bogota, a journey of eight hours.
Doctors in the capital built an improvised operation theater in a car park, because of danger of the grenade exploding. But they managed to remove the weapon.
"Five minutes were decisive," the soldier's surgeon William Sanchez Maldonaldo told reporters. "If the grenade had exploded, there would have been a tragedy."
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