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Hippo attacks and injures man guarding farm on shores of lake

Emmanuel Obiero, 21, is receiving medication at Sindo Sub County Hospital in Homa Bay County. He narrowly escaped from the mouth of a hippo as he was safeguarding his farm against wild animals inversion.BY JAMES OMORO

A 21-year-old man was attacked and injured by a hippopotamus on the shores of Lake Victoria in Homa Bay County.

Emmanuel Obiero was attacked by the wildbeest at Ngeri beach in Suba South sub-county on Wednesday morning.

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