By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
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A hippopotamus has injured a 54-year-old man at Wak-Abil Village near Aweil Town, Northern Bahr El Gazal state.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Tong Deng Tong, a farmer, who cultivates tomatoes near the river where the hippo-potamus reside, attempted to drive away the animal which had come to graze in the garden.<\/p>\n Nyanut Deng Luil, a resident of Wak-abil said the old man attempted to chase away the hippo but instead it subdued the farmer.<\/p>\n According to Ms. Deng, two boys attempted to throw stones at the hippo when it attacked the old man, leaving him with serious wounds.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hippo attacked Tong and bit him on one arm and thigh and the boys threw stones hard on it till it went back to the river.\u201d Said Nyanut.<\/p>\n She added that the old man is taken to Aweil Civil hospital where he is being treated.<\/p>\n A similar incident happened last year when a hippo killed a person at Nyamlel West County in Northern Bahr El Gazal state, till it was killed by the authorities.<\/p>\n The wildlife department warns local residents against killing such animals as their species may become extinct.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou A hippopotamus has injured a 54-year-old man at Wak-Abil Village near Aweil Town, Northern Bahr El Gazal state. Tong Deng Tong, a farmer, who cultivates tomatoes near the river where the hippo-potamus reside, attempted to drive away the animal which had come to graze in[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24061,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24060\/revisions\/24061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}