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September 26, 2024 at 6:37 AM. The 63-year-old man was on a group canoe trip in Zambia when the attack occurred. Getty. A stock photo of a hippo. British tourist Roland Cherry was severely injured ...
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The hippo is considered to be extremely aggressive and has frequently been reported charging and attacking boats. [102] Small boats can easily be capsized by hippos and passengers can be injured or killed by the animals, or drown in the water. In one 2014 case in Niger, a boat was capsized by a hippo and 13 people were killed. [103]
USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) in the Sea of Japan, August 1974. USS Oklahoma City (CL-91/CLG-5/CG-5) was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland -class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II, and one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers. She was the first US Navy ship to be named for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The 1996 Zambezi River hippopotamus attack was an incident on the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, near Victoria Falls on 9 March 1996 where a hippopotamus attacked two river tour guides killing one and injuring the other. The surviving tour guide is British-born [1] Zimbabwean Paul Templer (born c. 1969) who lost an arm in the attack.
An 80-year-old American woman was killed during a wildlife safari in Zambia after an “aggressive” bull elephant “unexpectedly” charged at the vehicle, the tour operators said. The incident ...
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the end to the Waco siege. The bombing remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after an allision with an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test ...