The Kenya Wildlife Service on Wednesday put down a lion which attacked one person in Isinya.
KWS Spokesman Paul Gathitu told Capital FM News that the rangers were forced to shoot the animal after the situation became “life threatening.”
He said they had sent out two teams to recover the animal but ended up taking the extreme measure on account of the animal’s aggressive behaviour. “It became agitated by the crowds that had gathered to see it.”
The exact details of the attack however remain sketchy including those on where the lion strayed from. “It may not have necessarily come from the Nairobi National Park. That area is large and an intersection of wildlife coming from as far as Amboseli,” Gathitu said.
The incident comes hot on the heels of similar attack on a man along Mombasa Road by a lion that had strayed out of the Nairobi National Park.
