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Another elephant shot in Charara
Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF)
February 05, 2008

Following hard on the heels of the tragic shooting of Tusker, another Charara elephant was shot on Saturday 2nd February.

According to reports, a cook who was employed at Wild Heritage went on a "beer drink" on Friday night and didn't come home. His wife went to look for him on Saturday morning and found his dead body on the side of the road. Although there were no signs of any injuries to the body, the wife decided that he must have been killed by an elephant. No autopsy was carried out to determine the cause of death and nobody witnessed the "elephant attack".

National Parks arrived a little later and shot an elephant that happened to be in the area at the time. Apparently, about 30 shots were fired.

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