Botswana probes mysterious death of 12 elephants

Botswana is probing the mysterious deaths of a dozen elephants in the country’s famed Okavango Delta, the tourism ministry said Tuesday, ruling out poaching because the animals’ valuable tusks were not missing. “So far, veterinary officers have ruled out the possibility of poaching because all carcasses of the elephants were found intact,” Oduetse Koboto, the tourism ministry’s acting permanent secretary, said in a statement.