A farmer axed a three-year-old lion to death on Monday after it mauled five people and also tried to attack him in Gujarat's Junagadh district that houses the Sasan Gir Lion Sanctuary, forest officials said on Monday.
The lion was brought down in "self-defence" by a farmer in the wider periphery of Mandanpara village after it attacked him, they said, adding the wildcat injured five others, including a forest official.
The injured, one of whom is reported to have lost a leg, have been admitted to a government hospital.
Increased human activity within the wider area of the lion reserve is leading to increase in incidents of animal-human conflicts.
In another incident Saturday, a female leopard was trapped after she attacked three persons in a village near Veraval while the carcass of another was found in a decomposed state from near Dhari.
Forest sources attributed territorial infighting as the ostensible cause of death.
- Indian Journalist.
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