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Villagers feast on elephant electrocuted by live fence in Meru
Youths celebrate as one of them carries a piece of elephant meat in Themba Village in Meru County on May 11, 2016. Residents scrambled for the meat of an elephant that was electrocuted by a live fence. PHOTO | PHOEBE OKALL | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- KWS officers retrieved the elephant’s tusks leaving hundreds of young men to fight for a share of the meat.
- The incident comes even as KWS and Rhino Ark started putting up a fence along the forest to contain the wild animals.
- Residents said more than 15 elephants invaded their farms on Tuesday night before one of them was electrocuted.
- Mr Joseph Thuranira said he was forced to abandon his three-acre farm due to constant invasion.
Hundreds of locals armed with crude weapons Wednesday descended on Themba Village in Meru County and slaughtered an elephant that had been electrocuted by a live fence surrounding one of the farms.
This is the fifth elephant to die of electrocution in the area as a longstanding human-wildlife conflicts continue unabated.
