Two of these lions are known as the Tsavo man-eaters; they attacked workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1898.
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Tsavo males have been known as man-eaters, particularly involving an incident during the building of the Uganda Railway in the late 19th century.
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It has a station on the railway between Mombasa and Nairobi and was probably named because it was a junction of the Uganda Railway and the Mackinnon ox cart road 90km/60 miles outside Mombasa.