A suspected South African poacher and his Zimbabwean accomplice were shot dead in Zimbabwe’s most exclusive wildlife sanctuary.
The two suspects died during a shoot-out with game scouts at Malilangwe, in south-eastern Zimbabwe.
The dead South African hasn’t yet been named, but he was working with a 28-year-old Zimbabwean from the southern town of Gwanda.
Police told the state-run Chronicle newspaper on Thursday that they wanted to first inform his next of kin.
The pair reportedly snuck into Malilangwe before dawn on Saturday.
But the private conservancy, which has hosted high-profile visitors like Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas, is tightly patrolled by rangers, who spotted the intruders.
They were killed in a gunfight and their bodies are at the local hospital in Chiredzi.