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AHI News : Herder slays lion
on 2007/11/22 17:01:45 (157 reads)
Nairobi - Kenyan surgeons have amputated the arms and reconstructed the face of a herder who slew a lion, only to be mauled later by a pack of hyenas, an official said on Monday.

Moses Lekalau, 35, on Friday speared a lion to death in Samburu, about 260 kilometres north-east of the capital Nairobi, only to be savaged by hyenas that emerged from the bush.

"His arms were amputated and his head and face underwent reconstructive surgery on Sunday," said Herman Wabomba, the spokesperson for the capital's Kenyatta National Hospital.

Lekalau speared the lion that had attacked him while walking home with his livestock, then bludgeoned it to death in the region where wild animals roam in open ranges.

Lekalau hails from a nomadic pastoralist community where boys are ritually required to kill lions as a signature of maturing into manhood