Binga farmer's body split in two by hippo

Binga farmer's body split in two by hippo

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By Staff Reporter

A BINGA man has died after being broken into two pieces by a rampaging hippopotamus which had strayed into his field.

Brave dad Siakaloba Munsenge, 47, from Chief Sinamsanga’s area in the Matabeleland North district had tried to drive-off a herd of hippos which were grazing on his field, before tragedy struck at around 3am on Monday.

“He tried to drive the hippos out of his field but one of them charged at him and bit him on the waist and broke him into two pieces. He died on the spot,” Matabeleland North police spokesman Assistant Inspector Casper Nhepera told the Chronicle newspaper.

Munsenge's split body was recovered later on Monday by another villager checking for stray animals on the fields.

Binga resident magistrate Collet Ncube is said to have waived a post mortem on Munsenge's body.

The dead man's field is 10 metres from Nsengwa River, a tributary of the Zambezi River.

Farmers in the area have problems with wild animals and usually take turns to guard fields to drive off wild animals -- usually elephants, crocodiles and hippos.
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