A teenager found a bomb from the First World War and exploded in his chest

Paul Aide, an 18-year-old French teenager, is a history buff. But he had never imagined that this hobby could leave him on the verge of death. According to British media, the boy found a bomb from the first world war looking for old coins in a forest. San to realize, it exploded and the explosion was triggered by the air.

L & # 39; location Daily mail He explained that the incident had occurred in early July but that it was only recently revealed. The young man was looking for coins with his metal detector near his home in the city of Metz. When the device rang, he thought he had found a lost treasure and began digging the premises. However, thanks to this, the device has been activated.

Due to the explosion, he suffered the impact of at least 50 pieces of shrapnel in the chest and neck. The violence of the blow was such that he was thrown to the ground, bloody and confused.

"I was completely disoriented." I was shocked because I did not know what had happened, I saw all the blood and most of my index finger ripped"remembers the young man.

Despite serious injuries, he walked home and his parents took him to a hospital urgently. The doctors had to operate to remove all the parts of the pump. Although in the end it did not have to be amputated, He lost the sensitivity of his left hand.

The teenager himself acknowledged that he had survived miraculously because if the shrapnel had hit only 6 centimeters higher, he would have hit him directly in the face .