Bees attack, kill man, in Narok village

Police said he was rescued and rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to the attacks.

In Summary
  • In the same area, a lion attacked and killed a 26-year-old man.
  • Residents said Moses Sironka Kipila was attacked and killed by a lion at Enkilata village on May 17.
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A 60-year-old man died after a swarm of bees attacked him in a village in Mulot, Narok.

Philip Mpoe was walking home on May 15 in Oloolaimutia when a swarm of bees which had a colony on a tree by the roadside descended on him unprovoked.

Police said he was rescued and rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to the attacks.

In the same area, a lion attacked and killed a 26-year-old man.

Residents said Moses Sironka Kipila was attacked and killed by a lion at Enkilata village on May 17.

Police and Kenya Wildlife Service officials visited the scene and established that the deceased was among a group of villagers who chased about seven lions that had earlier attacked their herds of cattle.

It was then that the lion turned on the victim and attacked him killing him.

The body was moved to the Narok County Referral Hospital mortuary pending autopsy.

Tension is rising in the area amid fears of retaliation by locals to kill the wild animals, which strayed from the nearby Maasai Mara National Park.

Officials are working to drive the animals back to the park and put measures to tame a repeat of the same.

It comes in the wake of the killing of 12 lions in Amboseli by villagers in a conflict.

This followed an earlier incident where some lions killed goats in the area.

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