Uganda: Elephants Kill Two in Kanungu


The Monitor (Kampala)

29 August 2008
Posted to the web 29 August 2008

Patson Baraire


Over 200 families from Kinyabutongo and Kameme villages in Kihiihi Sub-county, Kanungu District have fled their homes and camped at the sub-county headquarters after elephants from the Queen Elizabeth National Park invaded their area. Last weekend, the elephants killed two people and injured several others.

The Kihiihi LC3 chairperson, Mr Nelson Natukunda, named the victims as Ms Beatrice Musabyimaana, 39, and her two-year-old son Brian Abemaana, who were killed as she tended to her garden.


Mr Natukunda told reporters that elephants and buffalos escape from the park and attack people, at times entering houses and gardens.

"Park officials and residents have in the past dug trenches to check the animals' movements, but they now use a nearby swamp to get to people's gardens," Mr Natukunda said. Efforts to talk to park officials were futile.