The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has appealed his fellow countrymen to vote peacefully in Monday’s general elections. Mr. Kibaki who’s stepping down after two terms in office said he was making a passionate plea for all Kenyans to ensure a free, fair, just and peaceful election. More than 1,000 people died in violence following the last disputed presidential poll in 2007.
Forest rangers in northeast India say they’ve fought a seven-hour gun battle with heavily armed poachers but were unable to prevent them killing a rare one-horned rhinoceros. Most of the world’s remaining 3,300 one-horned rhinos live in India’s Kaziranga National Park which is a world heritage site. Warren Bull has this report.
Rangers from the Kaziranga National Park said that after the gun battle they found the dead rhino riddled with bullets with its horn removed alongside the carcass was spent rifle ammunition. Kaziranga’s warden said poachers had killed 13 rhinos in two months at the park which is a UNESCO world heritage site and an attractive target for poachers because it’s home to about 2,200 one-horned rhinos, all 2/3 of the world’s population.
A man in Florida has been swallowed up by a ten-meter wide sinkhole that opened up underneath a bedroom of his house. It’s not yet clear whether Jeff Bush survived the fall. His brother said he heard a loud crash followed by screams as the six-meter deep hole opened up. Officials in the town have suspended rescue efforts until they can establish that the ground is safe.