{"id":32198,"date":"2013-01-16T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32198"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T12:03:00","slug":"woman-attacked-by-a-rhino-after-posing-with-it-for-a-photograph-strange-news-32198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/woman-attacked-by-a-rhino-after-posing-with-it-for-a-photograph-strange-news-32198\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman attacked by a rhino after posing with it for a photograph \/ Strange News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/south-Africa-woman-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32208\" title=\"south Africa woman picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/south-Africa-woman-picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/south-Africa-woman-picture.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/south-Africa-woman-picture-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Chantal Beyer posed with her husband Sven Fouche beside the rhinos moments before one of them attacked her strangely, causing severe body injury to her.<\/h1>\n<p>Officials say the incident is very strange since rhinos are known to be friendly and does not attack people often unless under serious circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>The Beeld newspaper reported that the 24-year-old woman was seriously injured and has to be rushed to the hospital to seek medical care for her.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered injuries to her shoulder, lungs and ribs after being gored at the Aloe Ridge Hotel and Game Reserve, some 40km from Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The woman is believed to be a student from the West Rand and was at the game reserve with her husband and several other people when this unfortunate incident happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>She is however reported to be responding to treatment at the hospital and is in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is reported to be the home to some three-quarters of the world&#8217;s rhinoceros population of about 28,000 animals according to official statistic figure available.<\/p>\n<p>The rhinos contribute to the tourism sector of the economy by serving as a species of which people travel all over the world from to catch a glimpse of them.<\/p>\n<p>But the country has seen a substantial rise in poaching in the past year amid a reported growing demand for rhino horn in parts of Asia especially in China and Vietnam where it is believed to have medicinal powers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issaka Adams \/ NationalTurk Africa News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chantal Beyer posed with her husband Sven Fouche beside the rhinos moments before one of them attacked her strangely, causing severe body injury to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[43683,9772,43681,43682,43684,43685,339,43686,43680],"class_list":["post-32198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-chantal-beyer","tag-johannesburg","tag-rhino","tag-rhino-attacks-africa","tag-rhino-photograph","tag-rhinoceros","tag-south-africa","tag-west-rand-rhinoceros","tag-woman-ttacked-by-rhino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}