Roland Cherry, from Warwickshire, sustained severe bite wounds after being mauled by animal during safari
A man narrowly survived after being dragged to the bottom of a river and “thrown through the air like a rag doll” when he was attacked by hippo while canoeing on holiday inwith his wife, Shirley, sustained severe bite wounds across his body, including a 10in wound to his abdomen, as well as a thigh injury and dislocated shoulder in the attack., where the 63-year-old was later taken for treatment, said they had never met a survivor of a hippo attack as most were fatal.
Shirley, who was in the front of the canoe, managed to swim to the riverbank but Cherry dislocated his shoulder as the canoe capsized and was unable to swim. “I was grabbed again and thrown through the air like a rag doll but towards the bank, which was the godsend,” he said. It was there that he was able to “bum-shuffle” to safety and a motorboat transported him away from the river.
“If they hadn’t acted so promptly there is a strong likelihood that sepsis would have set in, which could have proved fatal.”
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