More than 80 buffaloes drown after falling off cliff

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism in Namibia said that more than 80 buffalo were killed after they entered each other and drowned in one of the river.

He added in a statement that the buffaloes were chased by the lions in the neighboring Botswana when they “fell from a deep cliff” in the Chopy River on the Namibi side of the border.

Hundreds of buffalo were killed in similar circumstances in the past.

In one of the worst cases, around it 400 died In 2018 after they faced the river, which flows across the Botswana Chopy National Park, a major tourist attraction known for its huge number of elephants, beauty and giraffes.

An official at Namibia Kabolapola Conservansei told the BBC that the buffalo flock was fleeing black in the Chopy National Park.

“Whenever it chases it, they try to cross into Namibia and start [trampling over] They said each other. “

A spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Tourism in Namibian, Ndchependa Hamonella, confirmed that the animals came from Botswana, but could not say whether it was from the Chopy National Park.

Mrs. Hamonella BBC told the meat from the corpses to be “distributed to societies in the nearby region.”

In a video clip shared by the Namibi General broadcasterNBC, on the X page, the population can be seen by meat between them near the banks of the river.

NBC put the buffalo number that was killed in 90, and informed that the accident occurred at about 05:00 local time (07:00 GMT).