Security forces shoot 500 cows in Laikipia as herders protest

Some of the cows said to have been shot by state security officers at Laikipia Nature Conservancy in Laikipia County. [Photo: Joseph Kipsang/Standard]

Security officers carrying out a security operation in Laikipia County are on the spot after herders claimed hundreds of their animals were killed last week.

Questions arose after it emerged that the officers drawn from different police units and the Kenya Defence Forces have been shooting livestock grazing on the ranches with live bullets to force the illegal herders to flee.