Posted on 07/28/2016 4:22:59 AM PDT by rickmichaels
This is the heartbreaking moment a schoolgirl lies dying at a zoo after being struck on the head in a freak accident by a rock hurled at her by an elephant.
The seven-year-old was having a picture outside its enclosure with her family when the tragedy happened at the zoo in the Moroccan capital Rabat.
The elephant picked up the large stone in its trunk and threw it into the air, hitting her on the back of the head.
The youngster was knocked unconscious and died in a nearby hospital after failing to overcome her injuries.
Footage taken by a bystander on a mobile phone and posted on social media showed the girl lying on the ground being tended to by staff as her anguished family gathered round her.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It was a one in a billion shot - oh, wait! - that was from an entirely different thread...
This raises the questions, "7-year-old what?" and "Why was it outside its enclosure."
I know, I know ... but one just gets so tired of garble.
What a horrible shame. I have to wonder why there are rocks in the elephant enclosure. It looks very bare, with little to occupy an elephant’s intelligent mind all day, day after day. Perhaps the elephant threw the rock in an effort to amuse itself, having nothing else to play with, and it accidentally hit the little girl.
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