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Long wait for pay for lives snatched by wild animals

Jacob Otieno, a hippo and crocodile attack survivor. [ Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Mama Florence Atieno reels with emotional pain any time she recalls the incident of January 24, 2016.

Her family became a victim of human-wildlife conflict, when her last born son Duncan Otieno died after a crocodile attack at Usoma Beach in Kisumu West Sub-county. Shreds of his mutilated body were recovered hours later.

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