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Uproar as Kenya Wildlife Service rangers kill stray lion in Nairobi

Drama ensured at Isinya, Kajiado town on 30 March 2016 after a stray lion was was spotted along the Isinya Kiserian road. It took more than five hours to kill it after attempts by the Kenya Wildlife Service to capture the animal failed. more than Twenty life bullets were used to kill the angry lion. . Police had a hectic time to control the huge crowed of maasai morans that was charging toward the lion armed with swords and spears. [Photo:PETERSON GITHAIGA/Standard]

A lion that escaped from the Nairobi National Park was killed yesterday after it attacked a boda boda rider in Isinya, Kajiado County.

Evans Murigi Muhoro suffered bruises on his back and hands after the lion attacked him.

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