These are the words of Edwin Mokuwa, the 28-year-old marathoner who was attacked and shaken by a hippo as he trained beside a river on Monday evening. Speaking from his bed at Nyahururu Referral Hospital, Mokuwa told the Star the hippo bit him and shook him up and down several times, finally letting go. Mokuwa and his colleague Dennis Kipkosgei were training before flying to Turkey on Thursday evening to run in the Izmir Marathon on Sunday. At 4:30 pm, while he was running in a place in tall grass, a hippo suddenly charged at him from nowhere. He wants the government through the Kenya Wildlife Service to compensate him, as the attack ruined his chances of winning gold, or any medal, at the Izmir Marathon.

Source: The Star September 30, 2020 20:03 UTC