Yahoo – AFP,
21 Aug 2014
A baby
suffered multiple fractures after being bitten on the head by a camel
(AFP
Photo/Roberto Schmidt)
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Lyon (AFP)
- A four-month-old baby boy is in hospital after a circus camel bit him on the
head, French police said on Thursday.
The
incident happened on Saturday as the baby boy and his mother visited the circus
in the southeastern French town of Megeve.
The mother
was carrying the boy in a front sling and was looking at the camel in its
enclosure when suddenly it bit the baby on the head.
"We
weren't feeding it or stroking it," the mother told the local Dauphine
Libere newspaper.
She said
the bottom lip of the camel clamped onto her son's forehead, with the top lip
at the back of his head.
The baby's
life is not however in danger.
The mother
told Dauphine Libere that he had sustained "multiple fractures" but
"should not suffer any after-effects."
Hearing the
mother scream, police rushed to the scene and called the emergency services.
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