南ア：密猟者取締官が暗殺されて

　南アで有力なサイ密猟者取締官が暗殺され、下手人を捕えようと作戦中。

BBC Leroy Brewer: South Africa hunt rhino poaching investigator's killers 18 Mar 2020

　最優秀とランクされるほどの大物で、階級は中佐Lt Colだ。シンジケートの取り締まりもしており、共犯らしき警官を取り締まろうとしたときには周囲の警官に助力を得られず、犯人扱いで牢に閉じ込められてしまったことがあったとか。

　…とまあ、恐らく警察の中にもそうした分子が入り込んでもいるのだろうが、なんぼなんでもhigh-calibre weapons、大口径の銃でぶちかますだなんてされたら、警察もそれなりに本気になるわなあ…。

「South African police are hunting the gunmen who killed one of its top rhino poaching investigators in an ambush.

Lt Col Leroy Brewer's killing was "senseless" and a "huge loss", police chief Gen Khehla Sitole said.」

「A total of 594 rhinos were killed for their horns in 2019, compared with 769 in 2018 and 1,028 in 2017, official statistics show.」

「Col Brewer investigated poaching syndicates in the Kruger, as well as syndicates involved in ambushing armoured vehicles transporting cash from banks.

He was driving to work when he was shot dead by gunmen with high-calibre weapons on Tuesday. He died on the spot.」