Woman dies after camel sits on her

The owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a 1,800lb camel.

Cathie Ake and the four-year-old camel were being filmed by a local television station last weekend when the camel kicked her and sat on her during a break in filming.

The station was doing a story on Mini-Akers Exotic Animals, the farm in Wewahitchka, Florida Ake owned with her husband.

Ake’s husband, Donnie Ake, said he thought Polo, the camel, was agitated by the mating season.

He said he would find a new home for Polo, which the couple bought three weeks ago.

“My wife did a lot of rescue,” Ake said. “She wouldn’t let an animal suffer.”

Police and paramedics moved the camel and recovered Ake’s body.

“To be honest with you, I don’t think there’s much that she could have done,” said Gulf County Sheriff Dalton Upchurch.