A hippopotamus attacked and sunk tile Northern Rhodesian mail barge from Mongo at a point on the Zambezi River near Sioma. The hippopotamus bit a large piece out of the barge and the terrified native paddlers (lived into the water and swam ashore. Two mail bags wane lost..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 7
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