NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, DEC 23
In one more human-animal conflict in the only abode of Asiatic lions-Gir forest- in Amreli district, a 55-year-old man was mauled to death by a lion on Monday morning, a forest official said.
The feline, in the age group of 3 to 5 years, attacked Kadubhai Bhilad when he went to attend nature’s call near his house in Jira village under Dalkhaniya range of Gir forest division, he said.
“The man died after he was attacked by a male lion around 6 am,” Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), Junagadh, Dushyant Vasavada said.
He said that the body was sent to Dhari civil hospital for post-mortem. The Dalkhaniya range of Gir forest in October last year witnessed a massive outbreak of canine distemper virus that killed several lions in the region.
As per the last census in 2015, there were around 523 lions in the state, mainly in the forest areas of Junagadh, Gir-Somnath, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts.
