UK Helicopter Pilot Shot Dead By Poachers

A British pilot has been killed after his helicopter was fired upon by elephant poachers in Tanzania. Roger Gower was piloting a helicopter taking part in an operation to track and arrest active poachers when it came under fire, the Friedkin Conservation Fund said. "We are profoundly saddened by the loss of our dear friend," the organisation's chairman Dan Friedkin said in a statement.