Hippo attack kills zookeeper | News from India

Just days after he was critically injured in an attack by a hippopotamus, Santosh Kumar Mahto, the zookeeper of Birsa Biological Park in Ormanjhi in Ranchi district of Jharkhand, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on Sunday morning. On July 25, 54-year-old Mahto suffered multiple injuries when his limbs were crushed by a female hippopotamus as he tried to take her newborn calf out of its cage and feed it.

“Mahto was operated on on July 26 and was initially out of danger. However, he succumbed to his illness this morning,” zoo director Jabbar Singh told TOI. The authorities paid his family a compensation of Rs 500,000.