Hunter gored by buffalo after killing herd member

Animal charged Claude Kleynhans as he was
loading carcass onto his vehicle

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Professional hunter Claude Kleynhans, 54, who ran a hunting
safari lodge, had been leading clients on an expedition along the
Levubu River in the northern Limpopo province when the incident
occurred last Tuesday.

The party had shot and killed a buffalo as planned, but as
Kleynhans began clearing the bush around the body of the dead
animal in order to place it on his jeep, he was caught off guard by
a sudden attack.

“A large male buffalo charged at him out of the bush,
tearing his femoral artery with its horn”, The Times reports.

The buffalo is thought to belong to the same
herd as the animal shot by Kleynhans.

The hunter died “almost instantly”, reports local
newspaper Bosveld Review. No-one else was harmed.

The father of three was “one of the country’s
finest ethical hunters” and “knew the bush well”, said the paper,
describing the death as a “freak accident”.

His sister-in-law told Afrikaans news blog Maroela Media that hunting was her
brother-in-law’s passion and that the buffalo was his favourite
animal. “He died doing what he loved,” she said.