TWO elephants were shot dead in a suburb of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Wednesday, national radio reported. National Parks rangers killed the jumbos after they injured a man when they wandered into the Bluff Hill suburb, which is surrounded by farmland. The death of the elephants is certain to cause an outcry from conservationists, who recently condemned the shooting by rangers of a hippopotamus found in a built-up area near the capital. They said then that rangers should be equipped to deal with straying animals, either with tranquilising darts or by driving them back into the wild.