{"id":115455,"date":"2021-02-28T10:31:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115455"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:31:42","slug":"tanzanian-man-seriously-wounded-after-two-hour-fight-with-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115455","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian man seriously wounded after two-hour fight with crocodile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/crocodile.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155515\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A 23-year-old man was seriously wounded by a crocodile after a two-hour fight in Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania&#8217;s Nkasi district of Rukwa region, an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said Mtanda, Nkasi district commissioner, said the crocodile attacked the man identified as Thomas Kasagama, a resident of Kabwe village, as he was taking a bath in the crocodile-infested lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The man cheated death after fighting for two hours with the crocodile and later was rescued by passersby,&#8221; said the official, adding that the incident occurred on Friday at around 5 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking from his Nkomolo hospital bed, Kasagama told a local newspaper that the crocodile attacked him shortly after he had started taking a bath in the lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Realizing I was in danger, I decided to swim into deep waters where the crocodile would have no place to support itself. I started to fight so as to discharge myself from the crocodile,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he screamed at the top of his voice alerting people onshore to rescue him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;By the time I was rescued the crocodile had already done damage to my left leg and my left ribs,&#8221; said Kasagama. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 28 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A 23-year-old man was seriously wounded by a crocodile after a two-hour fight in Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania&#8217;s Nkasi district of Rukwa region, an official said. Said Mtanda, Nkasi district commissioner, said the crocodile attacked the man identified as Thomas Kasagama, a resident of Kabwe village, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}