Hyenas kill 1 and injure 2 near Kenyan national park, sparking student protests about campus safety
ABC News
Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Marauding hyenas killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, officials said Tuesday, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security.
One of the wounded was a student at Kenya’s Multimedia University who was attacked by the hyenas late Monday on a road that borders the Nairobi National Park in Ongata Rongai. Students from the university disrupted traffic there Tuesday as police used tear gas to disperse them.
“The university is not safe because we are near the national park," said Ochieng Kefah, a student at Multimedia University, who was among the protesters. “The government should, maybe, put some restrictions on the movement of the animals.”
The injured student was identified as 21-year-old engineering student Kevin Mwendwa, who lost a thumb in the attack.
A team that was sent to investigate the scene of Monday's attack found body parts of another victim of the hyenas, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Tuesday.
