Hippo attack kills zookeeper

Days after he was critically injured in an attack by a hippopotamus, Santosh Kumar Mahto, the zookeeper at Birsa Biological Park at Ormanjhi in Jharkhand's Ranchi district, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital Sunday morning. On July 25, Mahto, 54, sustained multiple injuries after his limbs were crushed by a female hippo while he was trying to remove her newborn calf from her cage and feed it.

"Mahto had undergone surgery on July 26 and was initially out of danger. However, he succumbed this morning," zoo director Jabbar Singh told TOI. Authorities provided his family with compensation of Rs 5 lakh.