By Business Daily
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has stepped up surveillance in the Ongata Rongai area where a lion killed a man on Monday and three others – a lioness and two male cubs – were spotted marauding near River Kandisi and Mutondo Ridge estate at the weekend.
“KWS has deployed a 24-hour surveillance team to patrol Rongai’s Tuala area for any stray lion in the environs where the unfortunate incident of a man being mauled by a lion occurred,” the agency said in a statement on Friday even as it downplayed reports that ten lions were on the loose in the area neighbouring the Nairobi National Park.
Despite the assurance, residents of Ongata Rongai are living in fear of an encounter with lions, with witnesses saying that early risers had spotted a pride of the cats at different times.
Witnesses told the Business Daily that on Friday and Saturday a lioness and two cubs were spotted near Riverview Academy at around 5am. The school is not very far from River Kandisi. Others claimed the three had earlier been spotted near PCEA Smyrna Church on Friday morning. Read more>>
