{"id":25984,"date":"2024-04-12T16:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/8-buffaloes-fatally-electrocuted-kenya-power-blames-broken-cross-arms\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:03:48","slug":"8-buffaloes-fatally-electrocuted-kenya-power-blames-broken-cross-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/8-buffaloes-fatally-electrocuted-kenya-power-blames-broken-cross-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"8 buffaloes fatally electrocuted, Kenya Power blames broken cross arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 12 \u2014 Eight buffaloes were fatally electrocuted on Friday following contact with low-lying power lines in Nakuru.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the incident occurred near Wildlife Clubs of<br \/>Kenya (WCK) in Lake Nakuru National Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unfortunate incident occurred after the buffaloes came into contact with high<br \/>voltage power lines lying low on the ground,\u201d the agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>KWS said it contacted Kenya Power who confirmed the incident which the utility firm blamed on broken wooden cross arms carrying thirty-three high-voltage power lines.<\/p>\n<p>The firm attributed the situation to heavy rains in the area committing to find a metallic replacement for the wooden cross arms.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 12 \u2014 Eight buffaloes were fatally electrocuted on Friday following contact with low-lying power lines in Nakuru. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the incident occurred near Wildlife Clubs ofKenya (WCK) in Lake Nakuru National Park. \u201cThe unfortunate incident occurred after the buffaloes came into contact with highvoltage power lines lying low on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}