A hippo swallowed a two-year-old boy and then spat him out alive in a shocking incident reported in Uganda .
Paul Iga was clenched in the mouth of a hippo around 800 yards away from the edge of Lake Edward.
A local named Chrispas Bagonza who witnessed the incident started throwing stones at the hippo to save the boy’s life.
The hippo ‘grabbed… the boy from the head and swallowed half of his body,’ the police said, according to The Telegraph.
The hippo seemed taken aback by this and vomited up the toddler — after swallowing half of him — before trudging back to the water.
‘It took the bravery of one Chrispas Bagonza, who was nearby, to save the victim after he stoned the hippo and scared it, causing it to release the victim from its mouth,’ police added.
While Paul was injured and taken to a clinic for treatment, he miraculously survived the attack.
It is reported that the young boy was transferred to a hospital in Bwera but was released after taking a rabies vaccine.
In a statement, Ugandan Police said: ‘This is the first such kind of incident where a hippo strayed out of Lake Edward and attacked a young child.’
