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Enraged hippo kills holidaymaker

By Red Wolf

5 February 2002

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An adult female hippopotamus attacked and fatally wounded Annetjie Mienie — a really stupid woman — who was photographing her calf in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park

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Enraged hippo kills holidaymaker

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Fjordenhus / Studio Olafur Eliasson

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