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Ernie Dosio, 75, a Californian millionaire hunter, was killed in an elephant attack whilst hunting a rare antelope in Gabon, Central Africa

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• Millionaire US big game hunter Ernie Dosio, 75, was brutally trampled to death by five angry elephants whilst hunting in Gabon’s dense rainforest.
• The Californian vineyard owner was on a £30,000 hunt for a rare yellow backed duiker when his group stumbled into a herd of elephant cows with a calf. The elephants appeared “as if from nowhere” and immediately charged, leaving Dosio’s professional hunter seriously injured and his rifle lost in the thick undergrowth.
• Dosio, who owned hundreds of exotic animal trophies in his private trophy rooms, was left with only a shotgun against the massive beasts. The elephants, which can weigh nearly 4 tons and run at 25mph, brutally trampled the experienced hunter underfoot.
• A retired game hunter who knew the victim said: “Ernie was a very well-known and popular hunter in the US and in Africa and a very keen conservationist and he did a hell of a lot of charity work and was a really good guy.”
• The father-of-two owned Pacific AgriLands Inc, a successful vineyard business in California’s wine region. He was also a pillar of his local community, serving as Great Elk for 30 years and regularly hosting charity fundraisers at his trophy-filled function rooms.
• Lodi Lodge secretary Tommy Whitman said Dosio “always had his hand in his pocket and would help out those who needed it be it war veterans or handicapped or underprivileged kids.” A family friend added that “the news of his death in Africa was like a bomb going off here.”
• Dosio’s body is being repatriated by the US Embassy in Gabon to his home in Lodi, California, where he will receive “a huge send off.”

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