Roland Cherry, a British tourist, is lucky to be alive after being “badly chewed up” by a hippopotamus while canoeing in Zambia in June. Roland and his wife Shirley were enjoying a five-week safari when the hippo charged at their boat and managed to snatch him in its powerful mouth,

A British businessman was nearly killed when he was attacked by a hippo in Zambia and dragged to the bottom of a river.Roland Cherry, from Warwickshire, said the animal “chewed his flesh” and he was badly injured when it threw him through the air “like a rag doll”.

A hippo which threw a father around 'like a rag doll' killed a fisherman two weeks earlier. Roland Cherry and his wife Shirley were on a river safari in Zambia when the animal rammed their canoe. Mr Cherry,

Roland was told by one of the surgeons who later treated him in South Africa that he had "never met somebody who's survived a hippo attack before". Hippo attacks are more frequent