15.01.2013, 12:50
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Three elephant corpses lay piled on top of one another under the scorching Kenyan sun. In their terror, the elephants must have sought safety in numbers - in vain: a thick trail of blackened blood traced their final moments.
In December, nine elephants were killed outside the Tsavo National Park, in south-eastern Kenya. This month, a family of 12 was gunned down in the same area. In both cases, the elephants' faces had been hacked off to remove the tusks. The rest was left to the maggots and the flies. "That is a big number for one single incident," said Samuel Takore of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). "We have not had such an incident in recent years, I think dating back to before I joined the service."
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