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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

‘Thrown like a rag doll’: British tourist narrowly survives hippo attack in Zambia

Roland Cherry and his wife, Shirley, smiling with Victoria Falls and rainbow in background
Roland Cherry and his wife, Shirley, on holiday at Victoria Falls before the hippo attack. Photograph: Courtesy Shirley Cherry/SWNS

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 in Zambia.

Roland Cherry, who was on a five-week holiday through southern Africa with his wife, Shirley, sustained severe bite wounds across his body, including a 25cm (10in) wound to his abdomen, as well as a thigh injury and dislocated shoulder in the attack.

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