Posted on 09/24/2005 7:31:39 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Lions kill 20 peasants in Ethiopia
20 Sep 2005 12:23:12 GMT
Source: Reuters
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Lions disturbed by deforestation have killed 20 people and devoured 750 of their domestic animals in Ethiopia, a local news agency said on Tuesday.
The rare daylight attacks, all during August and in the remote south, have forced a thousand peasant farmers to flee their homes and sparked a hunt for the lions, local official Tadesse Gichore told Walta Information Service.
"The lions killed shepherds tending cattle and villagers after breaking into their houses," Tadesse said of the attacks near his Soro district some 500 km (300 miles) south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
"Thousands of people who felt threatened left their abodes and fled to safe areas after the lions killed 20 persons as well as 750 domestic animals last month."
Authorities were hunting the lions, who began roaming after deforestation disrupted their habitat and caused drought along the Gibe River Valley, Tadesse said.
The Ghost and the Darkness" w/M. Douglas & V. Kilmer
I don't buy very many DVDs. The movie has to be one I want to watch several times.
This is one of those.
Excellent movie.
Watch the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness" with Val Kilmer. It is about two lions that are eating the railway crew in Africa in the early 1900's and it will scare the bejeebers out of yuou.
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