Elephant tramples soldier to death

Herds of elephants
Herds of elephants

A 25-year-old Botswana Defence Force (BDF) soldier was trampled to death by an elephant recently at Kwando in northern Botswana at night.

Information reaching Mmegi is that on June 22, 2018 private Boingotlo Eshima was one of the anti-poaching team members deployed to Kwando when this unfortunate incident happened. He was from Pitsane village in the Goodhope-Mabule constituency. He has been a member of the BDF for 11 months.

“They were in a harbour at night and they got scared and did not act, as they should. When they ran, it chased him and trampled on him,” a highly placed source said. 

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