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Matthew Talbot
[Ministry of Defence]
A BRITISH soldier has been killed by an elephant while on counter-poaching operations in Malawi, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.
Guardsman Mathew Talbot, a 22-year-old from Birmingham, died on Sunday in what the department said was a “tragic incident.”
The soldier was in Malawi with the 1st battalion Coldstream Guards on his first operational deployment since he joined the army in 2013.
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