pa href="https://news.yahoo.com/botswana-investigating-mystery-deaths-275-145712785.html"img src="http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/HuP7RWVTGbpE4r78bI2NPg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/fdd8c3b55983d9fe09e7a1321634f2fb" width="130" height="86" alt="Botswana investigating mystery deaths of at least 275 elephants" align="left" title="Botswana investigating mystery deaths of at least 275 elephants" border="0" /aBotswana is investigating a growing number of unexplained deaths of elephants, having confirmed 275 had died, up from 154 two weeks ago, the government said on Thursday. The dead elephants were first spotted months ago in the Okavango Panhandle region, and the authorities say they have since been trying to discover the cause. "Three laboratories in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Canada have been identified to process the samples taken from the dead elephants," the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism said in a statement.pbr clear="all"
