Elephant keeper Kabelo Mashao was on border patrol at a park in South Africa when he saw the fully grown tusk use its trunk to release a latch on the gate that would allow him to escape. A safari park ranger attempting to persuade a bull elephant to return through a gate it had opened to the safety of the reserve was horribly trampled and fanged to death in a frenzied attack.
The father-of-two stopped his 4×4 and told his colleague to stay in the vehicle while he approached the elephant he knew well at the Inverdoorn Private Nature Reserve. As he tried to lure the elephant back to the camp, the elephant got scared and charged at his guide.
Afterward, Mashao was knocked to the ground by the bull elephant’s heavy trunk before being trampled to death. A park employee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “He is normally a very friendly elephant and Kabelo knew him well and went over to try and retrieve him at the open gate.”
Kabelo Mashao Age
Kabelo Mashao was 36 years old.
Kabelo Mashao Ranger is killed by a frenzied elephant
“But they say he simply blew his trumpet and went for him and then repeatedly stomped on him and ran his fangs through him multiple times, killing him instantly and rendering him unrecognizable.” “His colleague of his couldn’t do anything and he’s terribly upset by what he saw and we just don’t know what went wrong, but it was all over very quickly,” he said.
Managers of the luxurious Big Five game reserve, where a cabin for two costs between £250 a night and £550 a night, had to break the news to Kabelo’s wife of three years, Busi Magagula. The devastated mother of two was said to be ‘distraught’ and she posted on Facebook ‘RIP my lovely husband’ and then had to break the news to her two children of her brutal death.
The handler was killed by the elephant he trusted yesterday, which was a public holiday like Labor Day and he had volunteered to be on duty so others could take the day off. A spokesman for the South African Police Service said: “An inquest file has been opened into this tragedy following the trampling and tusking to death of a park keeper by an adult bull elephant.”
“Preliminary information is that he and a colleague were patrolling the camp when they saw a bull elephant open a gate and upon seeing it, the deceased got out of the vehicle. ‘He tried to lure the elephant back to the camp when the elephant suddenly turned on him, trampled and engulfed him with its tusks, and was pronounced dead on the scene. “The investigation is ongoing and our condolences go out to everyone involved,” he said.
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African elephants kill about 500 people a year and are the world’s largest land animal and can be up to 13 feet (four meters) tall and weigh 12,500 pounds (5,700 kg) and run up to 25 mph. Inverdoorn Private Game Reserve sits on 10,000 acres a 2.5-drive from Cape Town and is just outside Ceres in the Klein Karoo and is popular with well-heeled UK tourists.
It is home to the Big Five of elephants, rhinos, buffalo, lions, and leopards. Herds of elephants were introduced to the park in 2012, although the killer elephant has been there for at least 15 years. An Inverdoorn spokesperson said: “It is with great sadness that we confirm the tragic death of one of our staff, Kabelo Botha Mashao, who was fatally injured by an elephant.
“The elephant was introduced approximately 15 years ago and we extend our deepest condolences and condolences to the Mashao family, her friends, and colleagues at this time. “We are supporting our staff and everyone affected by this terrible loss,” he said.
The Aquila Collection, which owns and runs the Inverdoorn Private Game Reserve, stressed that the safety and well-being of staff, guests, and wildlife were of “the utmost importance”. “We are providing support to our staff and all those affected by this terrible loss.”
Neither spokesperson commented on the future of the killer bull elephant nor did they confirm or deny whether he had been euthanized after he killed one of Inverdoorn’s most popular keepers.
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