A minimum of 11 folks, together with girls, kids, and a toddler, are lacking after a hippopotamus capsized a passenger boat at the Sassandra River in western Ivory Coast on Friday, government mentioned.The boat, sporting 14 passengers, overturned in Buyo at the morning of September 5 after a hippo collided with it, in step with the country’s minister of concord and team spirit, Myss Belmonde Dogo.“It’s with deep sorrow that we discovered that 11 folks, together with girls, women and an toddler, have long past lacking following a ship capsized led to by means of a hippo,” Dogo mentioned in a observation shared on Fb.3 folks survived the tragedy. “The quest continues in hopes of discovering lacking sufferers,” the minister added, expressing team spirit with grieving households. “Distressed by means of this tragedy that upsets us all, the Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire joins the ache of the oldsters and family members of the deceased and expresses its team spirit to the survivors.”
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Fatal encounters with hippos
Ivory Coast is house to an estimated 500 hippos, most commonly concentrated in southern rivers. Whilst steadily noticed as docile, hippos are amongst Africa’s most threatening animals and continuously purpose fatal encounters with people.A 2022 learn about by means of Ivorian researchers discovered hippos had been the species maximum continuously fascinated about human-animal collisions resulting in demise or harm within the nation.The tragedy comes amid a steep decline within the hippo inhabitants in Ivory Coast during the last twenty years, due partly to searching and habitat loss. An African Zoology learn about famous that all over the wet season, hippos disperse into smaller tributaries and downstream towards the coast, steadily bringing them into nearer touch with folks.Native government and rescue groups proceed in search of the lacking because the group reels from the most recent incident.