JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A paramedic official says chimpanzees at a sanctuary for the animals in eastern South Africa bit and dragged Andrew F. Oberle, an American researcher at the reserve, badly injuring him.In a statement, Jeffrey Wicks of the Netcare911 medical emergency services company said the man he described as a ranger was leading a tour group at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden Thursday when two chimpanzees grabbed his feet and pulled him under a fence into their enclosure.
Wicks says the man had "multiple and severe bite wounds" and was dragged nearly a kilometre by the chimpanzees.
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