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<\/figure>\n\n\n\u201cThe other children managed to flee, but young Njoroge was not lucky as the animal mauled him to death. As they were going back home the hyena accosted them, it grabbed the boy but others screamed and ran away but by the time neighbours came it had partially devoured the boy,\u201d Jane Njoki, a neighbour, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Juja police commander Michael Mwaura said a meeting with Kenya Wildlife Service officials agreed to put traps for the hyenas which roam the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe hyenas are believed to be rabid, that\u2019s why they are attacking peole,\u201d Mwaura said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Area Member Parliament George Koimburi called on residents to take up the idle land which was left out by quarry owners, saying he has also borrowed some traps from a colleague from North Eastern to trap the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is unfortunate and regrettable that the child was killed less than a month after the hyenas claimed the life child at Juja South Estate,\u201d Koimburi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m asking residents here to occupy these disused quarries whose owners abandoned them, hence making them habitat for these animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes after five other people were killed by the hyenas in the area amid rising human-wildlife conflict cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Residents of Juja, Kiambu County barricaded the Thika superhighway for nearly two hours to protest against the killing of a young child by a hyena. This caused a traffic snarl-up on both sides of the busy highway that stretched for over three kilometers leaving travellers, among them secondary school students reporting back for the third…<\/p>\n