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Marauding elephant crushes man to death

Time Posted: October 16, 2014 1:50 pm


A 20- year- old man of Kalemba village in chief Nabwalya’s area has been crushed to death by an elephant.

Muchinga provincial education officer Jobbicks Kalumba confirmed the incident today.Mr Kalumba said the incident happened in the early hours of yesterday near Nabwalya primary school.

Mr. Kalumbamba who is on a 14-day mobile teaching service in the area named the deceased as Mulenga Kalemba who died shortly after he was taken to Nabwalya rural health center.He added that Kalemba’s fate was witnessed by children who where going to school in the morning when they shouted for help upon seeing the elephant stepping on him leaving all his intestines out while his head was smashed beyond recognition.

Mr. Kalumba explained that the deceased was mentally disturbed and due to his violent behavior,his parents resorted to be tying him to a tree during day time.

However, on Tuesday afternoon the deceased managed to cut the rope and went loitering in the village until he met his fate.

Mr Kalumba added that the incident has affected a lot of children in the area who are refusing to go to school for fear of being attacked by wild beasts hence affecting the lessons.

He further appealed to the Zambia Wild Life Authority(ZAWA) to keep vigil on the wild animals from going into villages.

In a related development, people of Mutekwe are also living in fear as elephants from North Luangwa have gone on rampage destroying houses and eating their harvest.

Councilor for Mutekwe ward Ernest Kaluba told ZANIS that the situation has brought fear in the area as pupils and teachers were failing to go to school.

Efforts to get a comment from ZAWA Senior Warden for Muchinga and Northern provinces Patrick Nyirenda failed by press time.

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Mr. Kalumba explained that the deceased was mentally disturbed and due to his violent behavior,his parents resorted to tying him to a tree during day time.

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Originally posted by GunsCore:

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Mr. Kalumba explained that the deceased was mentally disturbed and due to his violent behavior,his parents resorted to tying him to a tree during day time.

Our future under Obamacare.

As Lord Peter Wimsey would say.... "What a beastly way to peg out".

The parents were trying to secure their mentally ill son.

What would their options be in the rural area of Africa.

Tying him up they were trying to keep their son safe and the community safe from the son.

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Originally posted by Kathi:
In a related development, people of Mutekwe are also living in fear as elephants from North Luangwa have gone on rampage destroying houses and eating their harvest.

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I was in that area of Zambia back in 1992, and there were too many elephant in that area then. Malombo Safaris had two camps on the Luangwa river bordering the North Luangwa park. We had a client hut crushed in the middle of the night by an elephant. Luckily there was no one sleeping in that hut, but there was in the one next door.

In 1992 ele hunting was closed, and had been for some time. The last day I was in my camp we had close to 75 elephant cross the river into the park on the other side through our camp.

The elephants were a bit cheeky even back then, and because they have not been hunted they do not respect humans at all.

IMO, unless things have changed these ele need thinning some especially near villages! I'd love to help!

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