Two Nigerians have been killed by elephants, near Bajama village, the management of Yankari Game Reserve, Bauchi confirmed.
According to a statement by the Sole Administrator of Yankari Game Reserve, Habu Mamman, the incident happened earlier this week, when a herd of elephants went out of the reserve through Sharam early in the morning and headed towards Bajama village.
The statement read that The elephants went to Gwartanbali Forest and villagers living around there got excited, came in large numbers and put the elephants in a circle, taking pictures and trying to touch them.
Tragedy struck when the elephants got charged and scattered the crowd and the villagers ran for safety. But as a result, they pushed down a nine-year-old boy called Fa’izu Chiroma Musa who was trampled by one of the elephants and he died on the spot around 10a.m.
The elephants went further in the forest and the onlookers followed them; unfortunately another 45-year-old man, Malam Haruna Abubakar, while trying to get a close picture of the elephants was hit by one of the elephants and he died on the spot around 4p.m.
It took our rangers some hours to control the crowd who kept on following the elephants before they could chase back the elephants into the reserve.
Source: Daily Post
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