shoot a buffalo, but the beast attacks and kills him. The hunter himself became the prey. The protagonist of the sad story is Mario Alberto Canales Najjar64 years old, experienced hunter but above all chairman of the board Mexican Hunters Association. His death occurred at a Punta Caballos reserve in Entre Ríos province, Argentina, during a hunting trip that the man and three friends were on on Friday, April 14.
According to El Pais – who reported the news – Canales Najjar was armed with a .408 caliber rifle and had managed to get within about 30 meters of the animal when he took aim. The buffalo certainly weighed over a ton, he got up, charged the hunter and hit him with his horns, leaving him no way out. The animal only managed to break away from the man after receiving five shots from a large caliber rifle, which shot him down. But it was late for the man when he stayed seriously injureddespite immediate help. As this was an area with no cellphone signal and inaccessible to ambulances, Canales Najjar was loaded into a private vehicle and taken to hospital in shock but was injured declared dead.
The Entre Ríos Public Prosecutor’s Office has since opened oneInvestigation to clarify what happened and analyze the hunting permits of the Punta Caballos facility. The victim’s own friends are interviewed to find out if the group i legal documents to hunt buffalo and to find out who they turned to for the local sport hunting service which is worth $500 a day.
