Swiss tourist dies three days after being crushed by giraffe in Kruger National Park

A Swiss man has died after a giraffe fell on to the hired vehicle he was driving in the Kruger National Park. The driver of another vehicle, which hit the giraffe, will be charged with culpable homicide.A Swiss tourist, critically injured in the Kruger National Park at the weekend when a giraffe fell on to the safari vehicle he was driving, has died.

SANParks said the giraffe appeared to have stepped into the road and been hit by an oncoming vehicle carrying 13 day passengers on Sunday. The giraffe fell on to the rented safari vehicle, crushing the roof.The man, identified by police as Roland Koller, who was travelling with his partner, was taken to Mediclinic in Nelspruit, but later transferred to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, where he died on Wednesday.

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