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Elephant tramples tourist to death

November 13 2005 at 05:03AM

An American tourist was trampled to death by an elephant in Limpopo last week, police said on Sunday.

Thirty-one-year old Loren Mummy, who was born in South Africa but left when she was 18, was on a visit to the Welgevonden game farm with two friends from Scotland, Superintendent Ronel Otto said.

They left the huge estate between 5pm and 5.30pm on Thursday in a vehicle with a guide.

They came upon a herd of elephants and the group wanted to go closer so the guide took them closer, Otto said.

But then an elephant charged at them.

The guide tried to stand in the way but the elephant just pushed the guide aside and trampled Mummy, who died later.

Police would conduct an inquest into her death to see if anyone can be held responsible.

The Rapport newspaper said that the woman's companions cut their trip short and returned to Scotland.

Earlier in November, a woman was killed when she was attacked by an elephant in the Charters Creek game lodge in KwaZulu-Natal.

The 51-year-old woman who worked at the lodge was returning from an operation with four other colleagues when they encountered a herd of elephants. The elephants smashed the windscreen and lifted the car's roof.

The woman's three colleagues were slightly injured. - Sapa


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Sounds like the perfect AR topic.


The elephant maybe? bewildered


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