A surgeon who treated him in South Africa said he had never met anybody who had survived a hippo attack before, Mr Cherry ...

Mrs Cherry managed to swim to safety, but her husband was dragged to the bottom of the river by the hippo. Speaking after ... Mission Hospital and had surgery within 90 minutes, which he said ...

Mr Cherry was taken to the nearby Mtendere Mission Hospital and had surgery within 90 minutes ... never met anyone who had been attacked by a hippo, because most incidents were fatal.