Elephants killed by spear attacks in Kenya

By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
Last Updated: 3:01pm GMT 17/03/2008

Four elephants including two infants have been killed and 10 others wounded during a series of spear attacks close to a Kenyan game park.

Among the dead was a four-month-old female calf who had been speared 14 times.

Conservationists were today still searching for two other older males spotted with head wounds including one who had a spear still embedded in his skull. The pair have disappeared into the bush since the attacks.

The raids are understood to be part of a long-running dispute over land and water between Masai villagers and a conservation area set up for tourist safaris close to Amboseli National Reserve, 130 miles south of Nairobi in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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