The Pope has been admitted to hospital to have an operation on his gut.

It comes a day after the pontiff had medical exams at a Rome hospital.

The Vatican stated the process could be below normal anaesthetic on Wednesday afternoon and he would keep in hospital for "some days".

It stated the Pope had been struggling "recurrent, painful and worsening" signs brought on by a incarcerated laparocele (stomach hernia).

The Pope frolicked in hospital on the finish of March as a result of a respiratory infection and final month needed to skip audiences due to a fever.

Two years in the past, the 86-year-old additionally had 33cm (13 inches) of his colon eliminated due to an irritation and narrowing of the massive gut.

He can be lacking a part of one lung, which he had eliminated when he was a younger man in Argentina.

Knee ache can be an issue for Francis, who marked his tenth 12 months as pontiff in March, and he usually makes use of a cane to stroll.