Botha, 51, died Friday afternoon after one of his hunting buddies shot the elephant and it fell to the ground crushing him. The animal had just been shot by another member of Botha’s hunting group. A member of his group fired at the elephant. In what some are calling a case of instant karma, Theunis Botha, a Big Game Hunter from South Africa, was killed after an elephant keeled over and crushed him. The animals began to charge in their direction. They quickly started shooting, according to News 24, scaring the animals. Once the animals begin to stampede one hunter fired his gun at a charging elephant. Theunis Botha, 51, was hunting with a group in Gwai, Zimbabwe, when they fell on a herd of farmed elephants. The 46-year-old was part of a hunter group tracking an elephant herd in a private wildlife area in Namibia. Theunis Botha along with a group of hunters somehow managed to walk into a breeding herd of elephants when the elephants began to stampede. An Argentinian hunter named Jose Monzalvez was killed after being crushed by an elephant. He specialized in hunting leopards and lions and was also an expert “houndsman” - which means he used big packs of dogs to drive deer and boar into hunters’ cross hairs, the paper said. A big game hunter and guide in Zimbabwe was recently killed after an elephant crushed him. One of the other hunters shot the animal, and it collapsed on top of Botha, killing him.īotha, who leaves behind a wife and five kids, was known for taking wealthy American clients out to shoot for trophies, according to the Telegraph. South African big-game bagger Theunis Botha, 51, was leading a hunt in Zimbabwe on Friday when his group accidentally walked into the path of a herd of breeding elephants near Hwange National Park and three of the elephant cows charged at them, the Telegraph reports.īotha fired at the rampaging pack but was caught by surprise when a fourth cow came in from the side and picked him up with her trunk.
Theunis Botha, 51, was on a hunt in Gwai, Zimbabwe, when his group was charged by four.
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