A 17-year-old boy has survived a lioness attack while looking after 350 herds of cattle and is nursing serious injuries at the Imbirikani Level Four Hospital in Kajiado County.
With her cubs in tow, the lioness attacked one of the one hundred and fifty cows the boy was herding.
"I was injured on the right hand and on the back. The lioness had attacked one cow so I was trying to save the cow from her claws," he said.
According to residents, the area has seen vicious attacks from wild animals in the recent past.
"In the last five months alone, 11 lions have been killed by locals, with ten goats killed during the same period," residents said.
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Senior Warden of Amboseli National Park for the Kenya Wildlife Service, Paul Wambi, stated that measures have been taken to stop similar attacks in the future.
A public inquiry into unpaid claims related to the human-wildlife conflict totaling more than Kes 5 billion was recently initiated by Parliament.
The committee will investigate extensive cases that have not received compensation since the 1990s to find a resolution that will benefit the impacted Kenyans.
This is true even though a fund was established in 2013 to handle compensation for conflict-related victim compensation.
