Another person has been attacked by elephants that strayed from Queen Elizabeth national park has  died.

Yofesi Baluku Kananga, 45, a resident of Kanyughunya village in Kisinga sub county was last week on Wednesday attacked by an elephant from Queen Elizabeth national park as he headed to his farm in Nyaruzigati village.

Four elephants had on that day spent an entire night roaming the villages of Lhuhwahwa, Kanyughunya, Rwenguhyo and Kirembo. Upon being attacked, Kananga was rushed to Kagando hospital in critical condition. According to investigations, at least four of his ribs were broken while the spleen was also been raptured.

He underwent a splenectomy operation on that day. In an interview with Rosemary Mulere, the in-charge of the surgical ward at the health facility, Kananga had started recuperating steadily. But Bwambale Kananga, his young brother says Kananga's condition deteriorated on Friday night and he passed on at around 10 am on Saturday.

Baluku becomes the second person to succumb to injuries sustained after an attack from the wild game in barely two days. On Friday, a 75-year-old woman, Caroline Nazziwa, a resident of Rwenguhyo village in Kisinga sub-county also died at Kagando hospital following injuries she sustained after a violent elephant attacked her from her farm in Kirembo.

However officials from Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said they were not aware of these occurences. Hangi Bashir, the public relations officer UWA, and Edward Asalu the conservation area manager Queen Elizabeth both revealed that they were yet to establish that elephants had strayed into the community.

“I am not there so I am not informed about that report. If you have gotten information from the community, go back there and get all the details.” said Asalu in a telephone interview.

Kasese Woman legislator Winnie Kiiza cautions UWA against igniting feelings that human beings are less important compared to that of a wild animals.

“Friends, this is just one of the very many manifestations in regards to wild animals’ attack on the citizenry. It’s rather ironical that wild animals have a remedy; in that one found poaching suffers a sentence but a human being attacked by wild animals, as per status quo, cannot be compensated.” she said.

She appealed to the president to sign the Wildlife Amendment Bill into law so that victim of vermin animals can be compensated. Kasese district continues to grapple with wild animals straying from Queen Elizabeth and Mt Rwenzori national parks which destroy crops and sometimes life.

Early this month, a leopard also killed a one and half-year-old child at Kasenyi fishing community in Lake Katwe sub county.