{"id":23905,"date":"2016-03-15T01:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/italian-pair-shot-dead-in-zimbabwe-on-anti\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T01:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:49:19","slug":"italian-pair-shot-dead-in-zimbabwe-on-anti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/italian-pair-shot-dead-in-zimbabwe-on-anti\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian pair shot dead in Zimbabwe on anti-poaching patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{An Italian father and son have been shot dead during an anti-poaching patrol in Zimbabwe, officials say, in an apparent case of mistaken identity.}<\/p>\n<p>Claudio and Massimiliano Chiarelli were killed on Sunday by wildlife rangers in Mana Pools National Park.<\/p>\n<p>They belonged to a volunteer anti-poaching unit and were shot while repairing a fault on their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The elder Mr Chiarelli worked as a professional hunter, running safaris for European tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Italian city of Padua, Claudio Chiarelli lived in Zimbabwe for more than 30 years, where his son was born.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Zimbabwe Safari Operators Association, Emmanuel Fundiram, told the BBC his death was a &#8220;huge loss not only to the family but the hunting fraternity in Zimbabwe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The two men had been deployed to relieve conservation officials despatched to follow the trail of suspected poachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rangers&#8230; saw movement in the thicket, heard voices and opened fire, accidentally shooting and killing on the spot the pair,&#8221; the park&#8217;s authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under investigation. Mana Pools has long been a target of poachers who kill elephants for their ivory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10941 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88763755_88763754.jpg\" alt=\"The men were on patrol in Mana Pools, a conservation area in northern Zimbabwe\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{An Italian father and son have been shot dead during an anti-poaching patrol in Zimbabwe, officials say, in an apparent case of mistaken identity.} Claudio and Massimiliano Chiarelli were killed on Sunday by wildlife rangers in Mana Pools National Park. They belonged to a volunteer anti-poaching unit and were shot while repairing a fault on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23905"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}