Poachers kill two rhinos at South Africa's Thula Thula orphanage
Source: BBC
Poachers kill two rhinos at South Africa's Thula Thula orphanage
22 February 2017 Africa
Poachers have killed two rhinos during a vicious attack on an animal orphanage in South Africa.
Rhinos Impi and Gugu had their horns taken after a gang of poachers took staff hostage at the Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday night.
Gugu was killed instantly but Impi survived, only to have to be put down the next morning due to his injuries.
Staff members are understood to have been assaulted during the attack.
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"Is this another stage? That's what we've been asking," Thula Thula's Karen Trendler told journalist Bonné de Bod in a Facebook Live video. "There has been an increasing desensitisation, there has been an escalation in the violence in the poaching and the mutilation."
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39056634
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