Haunting image of hyena in ghost town wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This image of a brown hyena prowling through an abandoned mining town won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (Wim van den Heever, courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA) -

A “haunting” image of a hyena in a mining ghost town that took a decade to capture has won this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.

The shot by South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever scooped top spot out of a record-breaking 60,636  images submitted to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, run by the Natural History Museum, London.