Kenyan wildlife rangers slay killer rogue jumbo

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2006

NAIROBI (AFP) — After a two-week hunt, Kenyan wildlife rangers have tracked down and shot dead a rogue elephant believed to have killed two people and terrorized villagers in the central Rift Valley.

A Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) team backed by aerial surveillance caught up with the young adult bull at the Kerio River in Baringo district about 300 kilometers (187 miles) northwest of Nairobi, officials said Tuesday.

"It had killed two people and had become more violent," district KWS warden Christine Boit told AFP. "Although it only took ten minutes to kill it, it gave us a hard time."

"We had to use an aircraft and 12 rangers because of the thick acacia environment around this area," she said.

Boit said the tusks from the 15- to 20-year-old elephant...