Hunters shoot killer hippo
Local hunters killed the hippo in the town of Shelleng on the Benue river, said Babangida Jimeta, head of the hunters’ association of Adamawa State.
He said they were on the look-out for two other hippos that had turned violent in a sanctuary for about 200 on Kiri dam.
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Hide Ad“We don’t have pacifying weapons,” Mr Jimeta said. “Only people at national parks and doctors have those. Even while killing the hippopotamus, we nearly died in the river.”
The chief of Shelleng, Baba Ibrahim Italiya Shelleng, said the hippo killed two fishermen last Saturday. He said others had smashed canoes and destroyed rice fields.