{"id":34036,"date":"2022-11-02T20:42:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve"},"modified":"2022-11-02T21:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T21:21:43","slug":"ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve","title":{"rendered":"Ranger killed at Majete Wildlife Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>People believed to be poachers have hacked to death a 33 year old wildlife ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife has announced on Wildlife Malawi social media page that a ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve identified as Bendius Amasi was on Thursday night hacked to death by poachers while on duty.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Amasi was working for African Parks and that the incident happened while he was on a field patrol with a colleague in the southeast of the reserve known as Chingalumba, Chandeta area.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that the remains of Amasi were recovered by Police and Majete Wildife staff early morning Friday October 22nd, 2022 and burial will take place on Saturday 22nd October, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, full details of what actually happened to the deceased are not yet known but authorities say the matter has since been reported to Police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes days after another African Parks ranger working at Liwonde National Park was also killed when rangers stormed a village that borders with the park to recover rhino horns. The deceased hailed from Traditional Authority Kasisi, Chavalamisengo Village, Chikwawa district which is very close to Majete Wildlife Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. People believed to be poachers have hacked to death a 33 year old wildlife ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa. The Department of National Parks and Wildlife has announced on Wildlife Malawi social media page that a ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve identified as Bendius Amasi was on Thursday night hacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25,410],"tags":[233,371,284,234,1054,2251],"class_list":["post-34036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-death","tag-malawi","tag-murder","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ranger killed at Majete Wildlife Reserve - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"People believed to be poachers have hacked to death a 33 year old wildlife ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ranger killed at Majete Wildlife Reserve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"People believed to be poachers have hacked to death a 33 year old wildlife ranger at Majete Wildlife Reserve in Chikwawa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-02T20:42:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-02T21:21:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_9-6362df45174a4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"514\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ranger killed at Majete Wildlife Reserve\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-02T20:42:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-02T21:21:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\"},\"wordCount\":220,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_9-6362df45174a4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"death\",\"Malawi\",\"murder\",\"Wildlife\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Featured\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ranger-killed-at-majete-wildlife-reserve\",\"name\":\"Ranger killed at Majete Wildlife Reserve - 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