Hippopotamus swallows young boy who was swimming in a river with his friends (Video)

A shocking video captures the moment a Hippopotamus ‘swallowed’ a young boy who was swimming in a river with his friends.

In the video sighted by alreadyviral.com, three friends could be seen swimming in the river when the hippopotamus appeared out of the water and swallowed one of them.

This led to the two boys who were swimming with the other boy running for their lives out of the river.

Reports indicated that the young boy might have been killed by the Hippopotamus.

See the video for yourself below:

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