Lieutenant Fridah Nkonke, was attached by elephants which invaded a military training camp in Isiolo County. Nkonke and her colleagues were on a training mission at the School of Artillery camp in the Kainuk area when a herd of elephants unexpectedly stormed in.
After the attack, the soldiers ran for their lives but the deceased did not manage to escape. She, unfortunately, tripped and fell, giving the elephants an opportunity to charge on her. During the chaos, a group of other soldiers opened fire and killed one of the Jumbos. The other elephants fled into the nearby thicket.
The victim was rushed to the nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The body was taken to the morgue awaiting postmortem.
Isiolo Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) senior warden said more officers had been deployed to chase the elephants back to the forest. He assured the soldiers and residents that normalcy would return once an electric fence being constructed around the forest was completed.
by: CarlPeters