Elephant overturns Chinese tourists' car
A Chinese couple has been injured after an elephant overturned their car inside South Africa's Kruger National Park.
'It
is not yet clear why the elephant turned aggressive,' said spokesman
William Mabasa, adding that the male driver was airlifted to hospital.
Mabasa
urged visitors to the park to be on the lookout for 'huge animals and
try not to get too close whenever they see one approaching on the
road'.
Wild animals in the two million hectare park sometimes attack people, but no fatalities have been reported in recent years.
In
November last year, a German tourist who was among a group of
travellers was badly injured when a white rhino charged at her while
taking a guided walk inside the world-famous park.
Rangers had to fire shots to scare the beast.
Earlier
this year a local woman was gored by a rhino while she and her partner
posed for photographs with the endangered animal, after getting out of
their vehicle.
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