{"id":34734,"date":"2017-05-23T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zimbabwe-hunter-crushed-to-death-by-shot-elephant\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T10:17:13","slug":"zimbabwe-hunter-crushed-to-death-by-shot-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zimbabwe-hunter-crushed-to-death-by-shot-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe hunter ‘crushed to death by shot elephant’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A professional big-game hunter was crushed to death by an elephant that had been shot, according to reports in South Africa.}<\/p>\n

The Netwerk24 website said an elephant cow stormed a group headed by Theunis Botha in Zimbabwe on Friday.<\/p>\n

The elephant was reportedly shot as she picked him up with her trunk, before she fell and died, crushing Mr Botha.<\/p>\n

He had been leading a group of hunters near the Hwange national park in Zimbabwe when he died.<\/p>\n

It is the same park where Cecil the Lion was shot dead by an American hunter in July 2015, sparking an international outcry.<\/p>\n

Mr Botha, 51, was a father of five from the northern Limpopo province in South Africa.<\/p>\n

His eldest daughter Marike confirmed her father’s death to the BBC, but would not comment further on the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n

Mr Botha’s website says he began leading hunting safaris on private ranches in 1989, having previously served as a sergeant in the South African infantry.<\/p>\n

It said he specialised in hunting lions and leopards with dogs.<\/p>\n

His website lists various packages available to hunters in Zimbabwe, noting that animals including leopards, giraffes, buffalo and elephants could be hunted.<\/p>\n

A Facebook tribute by Zimbabwe-based Kuronda Safaris, which worked with Mr Botha, called him “a great man with a fantastic sense of humour”.<\/p>\n

South African media reported that Mr Botha was friends with fellow hunter Scott Van Zyl, whose remains were found in a crocodile last month.<\/p>\n

Mr Van Zyl was killed on the banks of the Limpopo river in Zimbabwe in what was the latest in a series of fatal crocodile attacks in the country.<\/p>\n

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Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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