India, July 15 -- Brad McMichael, a 45-year-old farmer from Oklahoma, died from injuries after being attack by two water buffaloes he had bought for his farm. The incident took place in Jones, a small town, around 30 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, on Friday. A livestock farmer, McMichael had bought the water buffaloes at an auction just the day before they killed him, his family revealed.

While wild water buffaloes are dangerous, domesticated ones, usually reared as livestock, for milk production or in farming, are generally calm. However, if provoked or threatened, water buffaloes can become aggressive and can attack humans. Exactly why the water buffaloes attacked McMichael is not known.

His girlfriend, Jennifer Green, told Oklahom...