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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 14, 2019, 04:40:48 pm
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Body of British soldier killed by elephant returned to UK
The body of a British soldier killed by an elephant during a counter-poaching operation in Malawi has been returned to the UK.
A repatriation ceremony took place for Mathew Talbot, 22, of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on Tuesday afternoon.
He was in Liwonde National Park on 5 May when he was charged by the animal.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-48271502?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world&link_location=live-reporting-story (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-48271502?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world&link_location=live-reporting-story)
He volunteered for this duty. I'm a bit surprised the military would have been involved in this. Maybe Malawi was once part of the British empire.