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Fidel Castro's crocodile bites man at Swedish aquarium [View all]
A man has been hospitalised after he was bitten by a crocodile that once belonged to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
The man, in his 70s, had been attending a crayfish party at the Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm on Tuesday.
According to police, the man had his "arm on the wrong side of the security glass" when he was bitten.
The animal is one of two Cuban crocodiles at the aquarium. Both were gifted to Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov by Fidel Castro in the 1970s.
Head of the aquarium Jonas Wahlstrom told Aftonbladet that the man was giving a speech at the time of the incident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49418726
The man, in his 70s, had been attending a crayfish party at the Skansen Aquarium in Stockholm on Tuesday.
According to police, the man had his "arm on the wrong side of the security glass" when he was bitten.
The animal is one of two Cuban crocodiles at the aquarium. Both were gifted to Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov by Fidel Castro in the 1970s.
Head of the aquarium Jonas Wahlstrom told Aftonbladet that the man was giving a speech at the time of the incident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49418726
The crocodile must have thought "I've spent enough time listening to speeches to last my whole life - time to do something ...".
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