One person killed, another injured as KWS rangers clash with locals

Kajulu Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) post at Kisumu/ Nandi border that was torched and destroyed by the locals who clashed with the rangers on January 6 2016. PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR

KISUMU: One person was killed and a ranger seriously injured while another went missing after villagers clashed with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officials in Kisumu yesterday. During the clashes at Kajulu, a KWS post was torched and property, including guns and communication gadgets used by the officers, destroyed. Trouble started when the rangers went to the Bunjoga Forest Reserve for their usual patrols and found a group of youth cutting down indigenous trees, contrary to the law.