Man, 26, drowns while taking selfies during an outing with friends

A 26-year-old man reportedly drowned after he slipped from a rock and fell into a dam while taking selfi es during an outing with friends inside Matopo National Park in Zimbabwe over the weekend. According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, Tichawana Nyamande’s body was retrieved from Maleme dam on Monday following the tragedy on Sunday. Nyamande slipped and fell into the dam while taking selfi es with the water as his background. He hit his head on a rock and lost consciousness, the report said. Eff orts by his friends to rescue him failed.

Th ey reported the matter to the police. In February, a man from Bulilimamangwe district in Plumtree was trampled to death when he and his two friends tried to take selfi es with elephants. Moses Ndlovu, 31, and his friends Methuseli Sibanda and Magezi Nyathi reportedly saw three elephants in a bushy area and “tried to drive them to a clearing so that they could take photographs with them”. Th e elephants – two females and one bull – however, charged towards them and the three men fl ed from the scene. Th ey ran in diff erent directions, as the elephants pursued them. Th e bull, however, caught up with Ndlovu and trampled him to death, while his two friends escaped unhurt. Ndlovu’s body was found the following day by a passerby, who reported the matter to the village head.

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