Mystery still shrouds the case of an elderly tourist who died in the Kruger National Park of South Africa.
While reports are saying she was trampled by elephants as she took a stroll outside her camp. People question how the deceased simply walked out of her hotel gates during the night and ventures into the bushes, where she was later discovered dead.
The 68-year-old woman is said to have been staying at the Sirheni Bushveld Camp in the Northern Kruger National Park, where she had been lodged together with her husband.
But under some strange circumstances, it is reported that security cameras capture the footage of the woman leaving the camp through the gate at around an hour before midnight.
Usually, all lodgers are supposed to be asleep at the time and among the park rules is that no person is allowed to venture out during the night and even at day time, tourists are instructed to be accompanied by ranger if they need to take walks in the wilderness.
The lady must have left the camp while her husband was deep asleep, but it is still not known where the guides of the camp were, when one of their guests simply walked out of the compound in the middle of the night.
Reports from the South African National Park claim that the aged lady could have come across a herd of elephants and was trampled to death. Though the exact circumstances are not known at this stage.
Meanwhile the identity of the woman is being withheld by authorities pending further investigations into the incident, and until her next of kin and relatives have been notified.
The Sirheni Bushveld Camp is one of the bush-veld camps of Kruger National Park (KNP) which is located in the Mpumalanga and Limpopo province of South Africa.
Sirheni is a Tsonga word that means cemetery. It is also in memory of an elephant that died in the area in 1959 due to anthrax poisoning and was buried here.
The camp is situated in the far northern part of the park and the closest gate is at Punda Maria.
The camps only hosts a limited amount of people and are off limits to day visitors.
The tragic loss of life has shocked the entire tourism and conservation fraternity in South Africa.