Man gored by rhino
2004-10-07 14:51
Durban ? A man is in hospital after being attacked by a rhino in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve on Monday.
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife's Jeff Gaisford said Mandlenkosi Magubane, 33, one of a group of contract workers clearing alien vegetation in the reserve, went to urinate in a thicket when he disturbed the rhino.
Gaisford said the workers had seen the rhino earlier, but waited for the animal to leave before starting their work.
Venessa Fourie at Empangeni Garden Clinic said Magubane was in a stable condition in the intensive care unit on Thursday after emergency surgery earlier in the week.
She said the rhino had punctured Magubane's back and he had several broken ribs.
Two weeks ago Kirsten Bond, a University of Port Elizabeth zoology research assistant, was gored by a black rhino while preparing dung samples in a boma in the reserve as part of a black rhino expansion project.
Her family said she sustained multiple trauma to her legs and lower torso.
Bond underwent two operations and is on a ventilator in the ICU in a Richards Bay hospital.
Gaisford said the two incidents were "completely unrelated" and happened 30km apart.
- SAPA