Elephant Tramples Tourist to Death After He Left His Car During Safari

[Demovictory9]

I've been on a safari... you stay in the vehicle unless the guide instructs otherwise. the guide was super careful about the elephants. this group didn't have a guide with them

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/elephant-tramples-tourist-to-death-after-he-left-his-car-during-safari/ar-AATeSQC


An African elephant has trampled a tourist to death in Uganda after he left his car during a game drive.

The victim, Ayman Sayed Elshahany, was killed on Tuesday 25 January at the Murchison Falls national park.

Murchison Falls is Uganda's largest and oldest national park, and lies northwest of its capital, Kampala. Visitors are free to explore it unaccompanied in their own vehicles.

A Uganda Wildlife Authority spokesperson, Bashir Hangi, said in a statement that Elshahany had been taking the game drive with friends, when they decided to stop along the way.

Hangi said Elshahany left the car and that the elephant charged and killed him on the spot.

Citing local news outlets, the U.K newspaper The Times reported that the victim and his friends had left the rented car in the morning to relieve themselves. The victim is believed to have walked further away and was unable to run back to safety in time.

[alphafemale]

1. And now they will probably kill the elephant for being an elephant.

When it was the human being staggeringly stupid.

[Demovictory9]

3. i hope not

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6. Article says no.....

No action has been taken against the elephant, The Times reported.

[Fritz Walter]

2. "Welcome to Uganda..."

"...and -- oh, by the way -- you are no longer at the top of the food chain. And this is not Disney World's Animal Kingdom."

[spinbaby]

4. I've been on safari

Fortunately with a competent guide. If you need to pee, you do it directly behind the vehicle in a place your guide deems safe.

[Demovictory9]

5. exactly.

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7. You can definitely smell a male elephant in musth for about a half a mile.

[Chainfire]

8. Talk about pissing your life away...