Uganda: 50 Elephants Attack Amuru
The Monitor
Sam Lawino

29 December 2009

"People did not sleep and Christmas became like a funeral," he said. He said the attempt to meet Sudan Consulate in Gulu to find a solution for the animals was futile. Atyak lies in the corridor where elephants from Murchison Falla National Park cross to and from Sudan.

The Sub county chairman, Mr John Bosco Ochan, told Daily Monitor that the youth who are trained to protect residents from elephant attacks are incapacitated.

"The youth trained by the Park authorities are unable to chase away elephants without guns," Mr Ochan said. He added that the animals are still marauding in the area preventing residents from accessing their gardens.

Early this month, residents of Coo-Rom village in Koch Goma Sub-county feasted on an elephant they killed after Park rangers suffocated it with chloroform.

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