AN enraged bull elephant pushed over a game viewing vehicle carrying eight tourists and attacked a buffalo in the Kruger National Park on Saturday, forcing rangers to shoot and kill it. Park representative William Mabasa said on Monday that the elephant, which was between 20 and 25 years old, may have been aggressive because of a painful abscess at the base of one of its tusks. He said the tourists, who were all South African, had just completed an early morning game viewing trip on the Wilderness Trail, about 20km north of Skukuza, when the elephant stormed them at about 8am. “It just rolled the vehicle, but the people escaped with minor injuries,” Mabasa explained. – African Eye News Service