Mandera mothers & children forced to wear pots and pans to protect themselves from deadly human eating eagles

BBC – Eagles have become an increasing threat to children in the northern Kenyan region of Mandera.

Mothers and children are forced to wearing pots and pans, in an attempt to protect themselves from the massive birds.

It all started with when locals described an eagle trying to prey on young children.

The BBC correspondent in northern Kenya, Bashkas Juugsodaay, has the details.

The incident happened in a remote pastoralist settlement.

(Picture: Long-crested Eagle in Kenya Credit: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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