Hippo that mauled a Taiwanese tourist at Lake Naivasha in Kenya shot dead
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/14
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The hippopotamus that mauled a Taiwanese
Hippo in Chobe National Park. (By Wikimedia Commons)
tourist at Kenya’s Lake Naivasha was shot by a park warden.
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Hell’s Gate park warden Nelson Cheruiyot announced that the hippo had actually been shot to death hours after the incident on Aug. 11, reported the Daily Nation. Cheruiyot was quoted by the newspaper as saying, “Our officers tracked and shot the animal after the incident.”
The hippo attacks occurred at the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort near Nairobi, Kenya just hours after a Kenyan fisherman was killed by a hippo in the same area.
In the first incident, 66-year-old Taiwanese tourist Chang Ming Chuang was taking photos of the lake Sunday afternoon when a hippo suddenly mauled his chest. The man’s injuries were severe, and he died quickly after being retrieved from the water, while others in Chang’s tour group also suffered injuries. [FULL STORY]
