Ahmedabad: An eight-year-old girl was persecuted to death by a lion in a village in Amreli District Gujarat, an official from the State Forestry Department said on Friday.
The incident occurred in Goradka Village in Amreli, Savarkundla Taluka in the early hours of the morning, the Deputy Forest Conservator (Gir-East) Dr.
Anshuman Sharma.
The victim belonged to the family of migrant farm workers who came there from Dahod District, and were sleeping in the fields, he said.
“When his parents and other workers realized that the girl was gone, they went looking for it and found it still in the nearest field.
They also saw two lions in the same area,” the official said.
While no one saw the lion took the girl away, the direct evidence showed that the child was persecuted to death by animals, he added.
The forest team has begun to track the two lions for further investigation, the official said.