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2025-07-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Elephant Tramples Two Tourists to Death on African Safari
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Zambia, during a morning walk in the South Luangwa National Park, an elephant trampled to death two tourists — a 68-year-old British woman and her 67-year-old friend from New Zealand. This is reported by the Daily Mail.

Before the incident, two women who were at the Big Lagoon Bush Camp decided to walk to the Luangwa River crossing before leaving, where they spotted a mother elephant nursing her baby.

The group strayed from their route and within minutes the enraged animal was chasing them. The New Zealander, who had problems with her leg, was the first to be caught. In an attempt to save the British citizen, the safari guides opened fire on the elephant, but this did not help prevent a tragedy.

Both women did not survive the attack.

As reported by Regnum, earlier in South Africa there was a mass escape of wild animals from the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi National Park. Lions, elephants, rhinos, buffalo and a pack of hyenas escaped through a damaged fence.

It is believed that the gap in the fence appeared due to illegal mining by local residents. The escaped animals are creating chaos in the surrounding settlements - the predators are attacking livestock, and one of the rhinos injured a woman.

Local residents constantly appeal to the authorities to restore the fence and neutralize the escaped animals or return them to the park. However, it is noted that the authorities are slow to respond and people have to live in constant fear.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [210 views ]  Top

#1 Animal Antics:

Tourist is dragged into a ravine and killed by bear after posing for selfie with its cub in Romania
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-05 00:26||   2025-07-05 00:26|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 In a story straight outta Daktari,
Staycationing mum on safari
Is shot by park staff
For protecting her calf,
Trumpets angrily, "Sorry, not sorry!"
Posted by Knuckles Henbane4431 2025-07-05 01:34||   2025-07-05 01:34|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 People who think "animals are peaceful" deserve that they get.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 02:52||   2025-07-05 02:52|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 "Don't pet the hairless cow."
Posted by badanov 2025-07-05 05:23||   2025-07-05 05:23|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#5 ^^ "... with the big nose."
Posted by Mullah Richard  2025-07-05 05:45||   2025-07-05 05:45|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#6 Went off the trail for closer look and pics did they ?
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-05 07:02||   2025-07-05 07:02|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#7 Get that 'personal experience' you came for?
Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-05 08:17||   2025-07-05 08:17|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#8 Terrifying moment 'pet' lion attacks woman and her two children in the street after escaping its owner's home
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-05 08:29||   2025-07-05 08:29|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#9 ^Shoot the lion and shoot the owner.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 08:35||   2025-07-05 08:35|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#10 Shoot the owner first then see if you can take the lion back where it came from.
Posted by alanc 2025-07-05 11:20||   2025-07-05 11:20|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#11 Ever since the glaciers retreated, elephant-fighting skills of our species have been on the decline.
Posted by SteveS 2025-07-05 11:34||   2025-07-05 11:34|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#12 What does an elephant pack in it's trunk?

Anything it wants to.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-05 11:37||   2025-07-05 11:37|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#13 Slow tourists
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-05 14:15||   2025-07-05 14:15|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#14 Shorts, socks, T's.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-05 16:05||   2025-07-05 16:05|| Front Page || Comments   Top

16:38 NN2N1
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14:39 Angel
14:34 Bobby
14:21 badanov
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13:29 Skidmark
12:44 NoMoreBS
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12:27 SteveS
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12:22 Grom the Affective
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12:07 trailing wife
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