A hunter from the United States has been killed by a buffalo he was tracking during an expedition in South Africa, organizers said this week.

Asher Watkins, from Texas, was killed on Sunday “while on a hunting safari with us in South Africa’s Limpopo Province,” Coenraad Vermaak Safaris (CVS), the safari company that organized the trip, said in a statement sent to CNN.

Hans Vermaak, who leads CVS, which says on its website that it’s the longest-running hunting safari company in South Africa, said Watkins “was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo he was tracking together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers.”

Vermaak did not say whether the animal was later killed.

Safari-style hunting is common in Southern Africa and involves

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