Craig Manders filed a lawsuit against African Portfolio, alleging negligence after his wife Lisa was killed by a hippopotamus during a safari in Zambia. Manders claims the tour operator failed to adequately warn and protect his wife from the dangerous animal. African Portfolio, however, maintains they are not responsible for incidents during the trip.
whose wife was killed by a hippo during an African safari has filed a lawsuit alleging that their tour operator was negligent in failing to keep her safe.
"My client is a tour operator. It organizes tours," Gould said."A trip, for example, might include airfare. We're not responsible if the airline loses luggage." The guides “knew or should have known that the close presence of the wild hippopotamus to participants in the Bush Walk posed an immediate and extreme danger, due to the known tendencies of hippopotami to be highly unpredictable, territorial, and aggressive in such circumstances,” the lawsuit says.
“Although Lisa Manders attempted to flee, she was unable to escape and the hippopotamus violently attacked her, grabbing her by its mouth, lifting her off the ground, shaking her entire body, and crushing her head and body with its bite,” the suit says. The lawsuit does not identify where in Zambia the attack occurred, but the country’s minister of tourism was quoted in a local news report lamenting the death of an American tourist killed by a hippo at the Lower Zambezi National Park on June 5, 2024.
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