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Baby girl, 1, killed and mum, 25. fighting for her life after giraffe tramples them in South Africa
A BABY girl was killed and her mother left fighting for life after a giraffe trampled them in South Africa.
The one-year-old was visiting a safari park near the port city of Durban on Wednesday afternoon when the horror unfolded.
The pair were visiting the luxury Kuleni Game Park on Wednesday[/caption]
According to local media, the infant was with her 25-year-old mother at Kuleni Game Park when the giraffe suddenly attacked them.
The pair were reportedly crushed by the towering creature before being rushed to hospital.
Both sustained catastrophic injuries during the terrifying incident.
Shortly after arriving at the nearby medical facility, the little girl tragically passed away.
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Her mum remains in a critical condition following the ordeal, police said.
Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala told News24: “The child was taken to the nearest doctor’s room, where she died.
“The mother was rushed to the hospital for medical attention. She is reported to be in a critical condition.”
An investigation into the one-year-old’s death has now been launched.
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Giraffes grow up to 19 feet tall, can weigh over a ton and are the world’s tallest mammal.
Males can become aggressive in mating season and females can be aggressive when protecting their young.
According to its website, Kuleni Game Park is a former cattle farm turned staycation park.
It is home to a collection of luxury bush lodges in the Hluhluwe area of South Africa, “geared towards families, friends or couples”.
The park promises to provide an extraordinary experience for guests keen to observe the “diversity of wildlife, flora and birdlife”.
It boasts that visitors can “enjoy close encounters with animals while walking or cycling the numerous trails”.
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But guests are warned to remember that the animals on sight are wild and therefore unpredictable, with Kuleni advising they keep a safe distance at all times.
Activities on offer include turtle tours, boar rides, scuba diving, interacting with elephants and crocodile cruises.
Google Picks South Africa For Its First Cloud Region In Africa
Google plans to tap its private subsea cable, Equiano, which connects Africa and Europe, to power the sites. Equiano has been under development since 2019 and has so far made four landings — in Togo, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa. South Africa now joins Google’s global network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones worldwide, and the announcement follows the recent preview launch of regions in Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. Google Cloud regions allow users to deploy cloud resources from specific geographic locations, and access several services including cloud storage, compute engine and key management systems.
The decision to set up a region in South Africa was informed by the demand for cloud services and the market’s potential. Still, the company is looking to launch in more markets within the continent as demand for its products soars. Its early adopters include large enterprise companies, and e-commerce firms like South Africa’s TakeAlot and Kenya’s Twiga. According to research by AlphaBeta Economics, commissioned by Google Cloud, the South Africa cloud region will contribute over $2.1 billion to South Africa’s GDP and support the creation of more than 40,000 jobs by 2030. Google Cloud, Azure by Microsoft and AWS are the three biggest public cloud storage players in the world, according to data from Gartner, but it’s unclear why, until now, Google has been absent in Africa. “We are excited to announce the first Google Cloud region in Africa. The new region will allow for the localization of applications and services. It will make it really easier for our customers and partners to quickly deploy solutions for their businesses, whereby they’re able to leverage our computer artificial intelligence or machine learning capabilities, and data analytics to make smarter business decisions as they go forward,” said Google Cloud Africa director, Niral Patel.
“What we’re doing here is giving customers and partners a choice on where they’d like to store their data and where they’d like to consume cloud services, especially in the context of data sovereignty. This allows customers to then store the data in the country should they choose to do so… I guess for me the most important element is that it gives customers the element of choice.”
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