{"id":48028,"date":"2021-10-10T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=48028"},"modified":"2021-10-10T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:20:38","slug":"anti-poaching-unit-mourns-officer-killed-by-bull-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/anti-poaching-unit-mourns-officer-killed-by-bull-elephant","title":{"rendered":"Anti-poaching Unit Mourns Officer Killed By Bull Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Victoria Falls Anti-Poaching Unit (VFAPU) officials say they are struggling to come to terms with the death of a long-serving officer who was killed by a stray elephant on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Clever Kapandura (51) was trampled to death by the elephant near the Victoria Falls City Council-owned Bonnaise Air bush during a morning patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The wife of VFAPU founder Charles Brightman, Teddy Brightman, told VicFallsLive that the organisation and Kapandura\u2019s family were working on burial arrangements. She said:<\/p>\n<p>He was a very good friend of ours and we had been working together for 30 years, so we are very saddened about his passing and my husband is struggling quite a lot with his death.<\/p>\n<p>I hope on Monday he will be able to talk as everyone is trying to come to terms with his death right now.<\/p>\n<p>What is more (painful) is that he left behind a small baby, his wife who can\u2019t even speak.<\/p>\n<p>He was a very respectable man in the community and we are working on the funeral arrangements with his family.<\/p>\n<p>So when it\u2019s a good time, we will like to talk to you about his works, but it\u2019s tough for us.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness told the publication that Kapandura was attacked within a short space of time, which made it difficult for him to escape.<\/p>\n<p>The jumbo reportedly crushed his head, arms and legs in the vicious attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kapandura was pronounced dead on the scene by an Ace Ambulance Services crew.<\/p>\n<p>Lovemore Ndlovu said the bull elephant was put down around the Aerodrome area about five hours after the tragic incident after a helicopter was dispatched to track it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Victoria Falls Anti-Poaching Unit (VFAPU) officials say they are struggling to come to terms with the death of a long-serving officer who was killed by a stray elephant on Friday. Clever Kapandura (51) was trampled to death by the elephant near the Victoria Falls City Council-owned Bonnaise Air bush during a morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,6593,3463,6101,6591,497,6592,6590,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-48028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-clever-kapandura","14":"tag-elephant","15":"tag-elephant-attack","16":"tag-vfapu","17":"tag-victoria-falls","18":"tag-victoria-falls-anti-poaching-unit","19":"tag-victoria-falls-anti-poaching-unit-vfapu","20":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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