Woman bitten by hyena seeks help from paramedics on accident scene

The woman, a hyena handler, suffered a partial amputation.


In Brits, North West, an emergency helicopter meant for the truck driver instead had to fly a woman to hospital for emergency care after being bitten by a hyena, Kormorant reports.

Paramedics from the Emer-G-Med Emergency Rescue Services were attending to a trapped truck driver after a sand truck collided with another large truck on the R512.

According to Emer-G-Med operations manager Jurgen Kotze‚ the extrication process took about 90 minutes.

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Photo: Emer-G-Med

Photo: Emer-G-Med

He said while the paramedics were working on the truck driver, a car came through the backup traffic with a badly injured woman in her 50s.

“The woman had tried to break up a fight between two hyenas on a neighbouring game farm and subsequently suffered a partial amputation of her left hand,” he said.

The woman is believed to be a hyena handler. She was flown to the Millpark hospital, and the truck driver was transported to hospital via ambulance. He sustained a possible fractured pelvis and two fractured femurs.

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– Caxton News Service

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