Pablo Escobar Hippopotamus Terrorises Villager

  

Hippopotamus left behind  by  drug king Pablo Escobar now terrorises villages as they emerges from the water to roam  the village streets at will.
 Escobar kept smuggled hippos in his Colombian estate alongside animals like flamingos, elephants and zebras all smuggled into his private zoo.
 Recently children in Dorada, close to where his estate was, now a theme park, were forced to run as a hippo strolled through the streets.
  

 

A Witness:mother Rosalba Casallas said: 'Hearing the screams of the children is something I will never forget.

'I thought someone was being attacked.

'They were playing out in the street in the early evening when the hippo just emerged from the nearby river.

'It was huge, a monster. It would have killed any of the children in an instant.

'They look so innocent as they trudge along but everyone here knows the power they possess.

'They are incredibly aggressive and so so big. No one stands a chance if they were to charge.

'It is only a matter of time before Pablo effectively takes another life.'

Escobar's huge estate, said to be 20km sq and nine times larger than New York's Central Park, was home to a huge array of animals he smuggled into Colombia in the 1980s

He brought four hippos to the estate from California but it is thought there are between 30 and 35 which have escaped as well as about 40 still living in Haciena Napoles.