US EditionElephant attacks tourists and traps woman underwater
A bull elephant protecting its young flipped two canoes and held a tourist underwater for 10 seconds, with all four tourists escaping serious harm, officials said.
- On Saturday, a bull elephant flipped two gondola-style makoro canoes, plunging four tourists into the shallow Okavango Delta in Botswana.
- Tour guides reportedly steered the canoes too close to a cow elephant and her two calves, and witnesses said some guides abandoned passengers as the charging bull surged.
- Video captures the female tourist held underwater by the bull's trunk for about ten seconds before her husband waded through reeds to rescue her in murky, crocodile-infested Okavango water.
- All four tourists reached shore shaken but alive and it appears no one was killed or seriously injured, while three makoro tour companies declined to comment, a receptionist said.
- Regional reports show recurring human–elephant clashes, including recent deadly incidents in Zambia and South Africa, amid roughly 130,000 elephants in Botswana, part of Africa's estimated 415,000.
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Elephant flips safari canoes for nearing calf in Botswana
Wildlife footage reveals Saturday's dangerous confrontation in Botswana, when safari participants encountered an enraged elephant mother defending her offspring. During the attack, one tourist was forced underwater, according to the New York Post. The wetland excursion involving British and American visitors turned perilous after traditional mokoro vessels approached young elephants, triggering the several-ton parent's aggressive response, acco…
GB News
PressNewsAgencyBritish tourists trampled by elephant in Botswana as huge beast flips boat in crocodile-filled river
British tourists in Botswana have been trampled by a bull elephant after it flipped their boats in crocodile-infested waters.Several canoes were on a wildlife safari in the Okavango Delta on Saturday when a bull elephant charged towards the group.It is thought the beast was acting to protect its young after the canoes, which were of the traditional style carved from wood, got too close to the herd. The boats, also known as mokoros, which had a p…
New York Post
DailyTruthReportElephant charges at tourists, shoves floundering woman underwater after party drifts too close to its calves: video
A fed-up mamma elephant charged a group of careless tourists who drifted too close to its babies in Botswana's wetlands and trampled a blundering woman, nearly drowning her, wild footage shows.
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