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HIPPO ATTACK

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September 08, 2025

ELEVEN people including children were missing after a hippopotamus capsized their boat in southwestern Ivory Coast, a government official said on Saturday.

The West African nation's minister for national cohesion and solidarity, Myss Belmonde Dogo, said on her Facebook page that the missing included women, little girls and a baby.

She said the hippopotamus tipped the narrow, canoe-like boat over on Friday, as it was motoring along the Sassandra River near the town of Buyo

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