Prisoner Caught With Grenade In His Butt

An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his butt -- an attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.

Guards at the Gotera prison, located just outside San Salvador, found the V40 grenade, about the size of a golf ball, lodged up the man's rectum during a security clampdown.

They also caught another 16 inmates who each swallowed a mobile phone.

"We'll have to expel the objects and if they won't come out we'll have to perform surgery in hospital", said a spokesman for the El Salvador prison service.

This isn't the first time either, last year, prison guards found an M67 grenade in the vagina of a female visitor at another prison in the coutry.

Prisoners in El Salvador use weapons to try to escape or attack fellow inmates and prison guards, and use cell phones to communicate with outside gang members.

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