DEAD ON THE WATER Suspected anthrax outbreak in Namibia sees 100 dead hippos covered in bruises and unexplained marks in river

Namibian ministers insist there is no anthrax outbreak, and that nature is correcting the 'high' hippo population

Conservation volunteer Cathy Withers-Clark, 50, from Simon's Town, South Africa, took the heart-wrenching photos whilst on a road trip around Namibia.

She said: "I received an alert previous to seeing this that around a hundred hippos had been found dead in Bwabwat in the previous week and that anthrax was suspected.

"Me and my partner were spending a couple of days in a camp with a tree house over the Okavango River in the Mahango Core area, and there were hippos happily 'huffing' to each other all the time right next to us.