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Kenyan farmers kill three rogue elephants - paper |
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NAIROBI - Kenyan farmers slaughtered three elephants after hundreds of marauding jumbos killed two people and destroyed wheat plantations, a newspaper reported on the weekend.
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Residents took the illegal action after a woman passenger was killed when a minibus rammed into an elephant herd and a man was trampled to death while harvesting maize, the East African Standard said. Farmers in the Laikipia District in central Kenya threatened to kill more of the beasts and share the meat among themselves unless authorities drove the animals away. Officers from the Kenya Wildlife Service have so far shot two elephants after failing to force them back into their reserves. Separately, rogue hippos and buffaloes have caused havoc in the Kangundo area, some 60 km (40 miles) east of Nairobi, damaging property and fruit trees, the paper said.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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