December 16, 2022 1:59 p.m
The boy was taken to the hospital, where he was vaccinated against rabies
“And the first such incident in which a hippopotamus wandered off the lake and attacked a child, Ugandan police said in a statement reported by the Telegraph. The hippopotamus grabbed the baby by the head and swallowed half of his body. It took the courage of Chrispas Bagonza, who was nearby, to save the victim after throwing stones at the hippopotamus and shooing it away.”
The little boy was taken to a nearby clinic for his injuries and then transferred to a hospital in Bwera, near the DRC border. It was given to him as a precaution a vaccine against rabiesthen to be released.
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