Elephant kills 2 women from U.K. and New Zealand in Zambia
The victims — Easton Janet Taylor from the U.K. and Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand — were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf, police said.
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The victims — Easton Janet Taylor from the U.K. and Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand — were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf, police said.
Police said one man confessed they had been hired for a curse to kill President Hakainde Hichilema. He testified they were promised more than $1 million.
The lawsuit claims that as a horrified Craig Manders watched the hippo attack his wife, the tour guides walked away without helping the couple. The company denies the lawsuit's allegations.
All but two of the 15 suspects in the jail at the time escaped when the cells were opened on the morning, police said.
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Juliana Gle Tourneau, 64, was killed when an elephant the tourists were watching attacked their vehicle, threw Tourneau out and trampled her, officials said.
A safari tour operator in Zambia says an American woman was killed by an elephant because their ranger couldn't move the vehicle "out of harm's way quick enough."