This story is from October 16, 2021

Gujarat: Lion devours 8-year-old girl sleeping in Amreli farm

In one of the most brutal assaults by a lion on humans in recent times, an eight-year-old girl was dragged away by a feline that devoured most of her body, in a village of Amreli district, in the early hours of Friday.
Gujarat: Lion devours 8-year-old girl sleeping in Amreli farm
Grieving relatives of the girl in Amreli village
RAJKOT: In one of the most brutal assaults by a lion on humans in recent times, an eight-year-old girl was dragged away by a feline that devoured most of her body, in a village of Amreli district, in the early hours of Friday.
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The incident happened in Goradaka village of Savarkundla taluka, which has a significant presence of wild cats like lions and leopards.
The victim Sangita Bhuriya was asleep in the open in a farm along with her relatives. It is suspected that a lion came around 4am and dragged the girl away.
Surprisingly, none of her family members realized the attack and it was only in the morning when they searched for her that her body parts were found.
According to forest department sources, the lion ate 80% of the girl’s body and they only found the head and one hand of the girl with flesh scattered everywhere. The department concluded that it was a lion after pugmarks were found near-by and some eyewitnesses confirming the movement of lions in this area for the past two days.
Talking to TOI, deputy conservator of forest Gir (east), Anshuman Sharma said, “In the morning when family members did not find the girl, they started searching and found her body in pieces and clothes a few meters away from the farm. The marks of dragging, blood stains found on the ground and canine marks were found on the body. Prima facie it’s believed that it was a lion.”

The family of 20 people from Madhya Pradesh had come to work here as labourers in the farm of Sardul Chandu. However, Sangita’s parents did not come and she came here with her brother and other relatives just two days ago.
The forest department has set the cages to trap the lion.
Department sources expressed the possibility that the family might have had fish or meat last night and smell of remaining food could have attracted the lion.
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