AFP - Getty Images A mobile phone and a hands-free kit are seen in a 58 year old Sri Lankan prisoner's rectum in an X-ray image received by AFP on Feb. 8, 2013.

Published at 9:04 a.m. ET: A Sri Lankan prisoner who tried to hide his cellphone during a search of his cell was caught out when guards heard a ring tone emanating from his rear end, according to a hospital official.

The 58-year-old convict had to be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo where doctors later retrieved the handset, together with an accompanying hands-free kit, from his rectum. -- Agence France-Presse

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