Hungry hungry hippo SWALLOWS a toddler in Uganda WHOLE… then spits him back out ALIVE
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Hungry hippo SWALLOWS toddler in Uganda WHOLE… then spits him out ALIVE
- A two-year-old boy survived being eaten by a hippo in Lake Edward, Uganda
- The animal was scared when a local threw stones at it and regurgitated the child
- Paul Iga went to the hospital for treatment, but has already been released.
A hippo swallowed and spat out a two-year-old boy while he was playing near his lakeside home.
Paul Iga was squeezed into the mouth of a hippo just a few hundred meters from the shore of Lake Edward, Uganda, The Telegraph informed.
A panicked local, Chrispas Bagonza, luckily witnessed the incident and started throwing rocks at the hippo in an attempt to stop it.
Two-year-old Paul Iga was swallowed and spat out by a hippo on the shore of Lake Edward, Uganda (file image)
The hippopotamus seemed taken aback by this and vomited up the child, after swallowing half of it, before returning to the water.
Although Paul was injured and taken to a clinic for treatment, he miraculously survived the attack.
The boy was reportedly taken to a hospital in Bwera but released after receiving a rabies vaccination.
In a statement, Uganda police said: “This is the first type of incident where a hippo strayed from Lake Edward and attacked a young child.”
“It took the bravery of one Chrispas Bagonza, who was nearby, to save the victim after he stoned the hippo and startled it, causing it to release the victim from its mouth.”