A couple from Isiolo has been hospitalized for sustaining serious injuries after wresting a lion in the forest.
While narrating the ordeal, the man said that the lion pounced on him while he was in the forest on Wednesday, February 7, evening.
He explained that he was walking through the forest with his wife when the lion came out of the forest from behind, catching both of them unawares.
His wife, who was walking behind him was startled and ran in front of him leaving him exposed to the wild animal.
Further, he said that the wild cat held him down on the ground, biting on his arms, legs, ribs and back.
“The lion bit me on my hands, legs, ribs and my back. My wife was walking behind me, so the lion came to attack her, but she ran in front of me, leaving me exposed to the lion.
“It pounced on me and started scratching me while I was on the ground. I called on my wife to help me,” he narrated.
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Lion Attacks the Wife
In an attempt to help her husband, the woman ran to his side to pass him a machete which he had carried with him but had fallen at a distance on his side during the struggle.
Her husband successfully grabbed on to the panga and attacked the lion, which then got agitated and turned on her, pinning her to the ground.
However, after continuously launching attack on the animal using the panga, the lion ran back into the forest.
“My wife passed me the panga and I used it to attack the lion. The lion immediately pounced on my wife and began biting her legs and it would not leave. After a while we fought it off and it ran into the forest,” the husband added.
Hyena Attacks
In a separate incident on February 6, students from Multimedia University students on Tuesday, February 6, held protests along after one of them was mauled by a hyena in Rongai.
The 21-year-old student at the institution was attacked by a hyena at 8 pm along Maasai Lodge Road, sustaining serious injuries from the attack before he was rescued and rushed to hospital.
At the same time, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) indicated that it had heightened efforts to trap and evacuate hyenas from residential areas in a bid to stop the human-wildlife conflict which had been reported in the past weeks.
