The rhino named Ntombi had four bullet wounds in her legs and shoulder and her horns hacked off.

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Eight-year old Ntombi – whose name means woman in Ndebele – was living with her 13-month-old calf in the Zimbabwe’s Matopo National Park.

Parks authorities say the bullet wounds from an AK 47 had broken her legs and caused unendurable pain.

She was immobile and unable to get to food and water.

Her sawn-off horns have been recovered.

In Zimbabwe, where the rhino population is estimated at more than 800, killing a rhino carries a mandatory nine-year sentence upon conviction.

The World Wildlife Fund said in a January report that 50 rhinos had been killed in Zimbabwe in 2015, double the figure for the previous year.

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The group, which fought a bitter civil war in South Africa’s eastern neighbor 25 years ago has called the action an invasion.

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Afonso Dhlakama was not at home when the police raids took place on Sunday.

He has taken to a base in the Gorongoza mountains where he hid out as a rebel leader during the civil war that ended in 1992.

Renamo’s taken to the bush after losing successive elections – the last two years ago.

Police say some of the 47 guns – 40 AK-47 assault rifles, and seven pistols – were coated with rust and were clearly quite useless.

However at least a dozen are in working order.

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The attack was carried out on the Bardo museum next to the Tunisian parliament as MPs debated anti-terrorism legislation.

Local radio in Tunis’s saying the victims include British, Italian, French and Spanish nationals .

Interior ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui says it involves two or more terrorists wearing military uniforms and armed with AK 47s

Most of the tourists were evacuated but some are still believed to be inside.

Security forces had entered the museum famed for its collection of antiquities.

Hundreds of tourists were on their way there when the attack began at lunchtime.

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Local radio reports there were negotiations with the man who was known to police and has a record of petty offences.

It is not clear how many hostages the assailant was holding in the post office at Colombes.

After negotiations, the man released several hostages and eventually handed himself over to police.

The gunman was armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, a gun and numerous grenades.

No one was injured.

The incident came a week after French police and special forces killed two hostages takers who’s allegedly killed a dozen people at a magazine office in Paris and another jihadi who had killed four hostages at a Jewish grocery story in the capital.

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