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Bizzaire as Hippo half-eat a 2 year old boy, spits him out alive

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Bizzaire thing happened as a two year old boy identified as Paul Iga was half eaten by a hippopotamus and was spat out alive.

Immediately, the boy was being swallowed, it got startled by a local throwing of stones at it and regurgitated the boy.

Paul Iga was immediately rushed to the hospital for medical attention and has since been discharged.

A two-year-old boy was swallowed and spat out by a hippo while playing near his home by a lake.

The boy was clenched in the mouth of a hippo just a few hundred yards away from the edge of Lake Edward, Uganda.

According to a foreign media, The Telegraph, a panicking local, Chrispas Bagonza, fortunately witnessed the incident and began throwing stones at the hippo in an attempt to stop it.

The hippo seemed taken aback by this and vomited up the toddler- after swallowing half of him – before trudging back to the water.

While Paul was injured and taken to a clinic for treatment, he miraculously survived the attack.

It is reported that the young boy was transferred to a hospital in Bwera but was released after taking a rabies vaccine.

Paul Iga, two, was gulped down and spat back out by a hippo on the edge of Lake Edward, Uganda (file image)
Paul Iga, two, was gulped down and spat back out by a hippo on the edge of Lake Edward, Uganda (file image).

Confirming the incident, the Uganda Police in a statement sad: ‘This is the first such kind of incident where a hippo strayed out of 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 scared it, causing it to release the victim from its mouth.”

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