A South African big game hunter was killed in Zimbabwe on Friday when an elephant that had been shot by another hunter fell on him.

The hunter, Theunis Botha, 51, from South Africa, had been leading paying tourists on hunting trips for over three decades.

He was guiding a group of hunters on Friday near a village called Gwai in western Zimbabwe, according to the Afrikaans media outlet Netwerk24, when he came across a herd of elephants. Some of them charged, and Mr. Botha fired toward them with his gun. But one elephant got close enough to lift Mr. Botha with its trunk.

Another member of the group then shot the elephant, killing it. It crushed Mr. Botha as it fell to the ground, Simukai Nyasha, a national park spokesman, told The Telegraph. Mr. Nyasha did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Monday.