Nervous horse attacks keeper

BOGOR: Ojon, 45, thought he knew the two horses under his care well, and vice versa.

However, at noon on Sunday, one of the mares, which he had been treating for the previous nine months at the stables of Vila Ciawi Bakom resort, attacked him when he was taking them out of the stable.

The horse bit Ojon's right arm and didn't let go until other keepers came to calm it down.

Ojon had to be transferred from the nearest hospital in Ciawi to the more sophisticated Indonesia Red Cross Hospital in Bogor to stitch his arm.

"The horse is distressed," said fellow keeper Soleh, who took Ojon to hospital. "It had an injection the other day ... maybe the horse thought it was going to have another one today," he added. --Antara