Lioness was dead due to electric shock, two cubs were there within her body

Junagadh: Postmortem report has revealed that a lioness whose dead body was recovered from Hiran river at Sangodara in Talala range on September 1 was dead due to electric shock. 6-7 year old lioness was pregnant and there were two cubs within her body. Cubs were to born in next one month period according to forest official. Thus there had been actually deaths of three lions and not one due to electric shock in this incident.

To prevent damage to standing crops from Nilgai and other animals, farmers erect electric fence around their farms in revenue areas located next to Gir jungle.

Forest department believes that dead body of lioness was dumped in Hiran river by some unidentified persons from nearby villages following its death due to electric shock erected around agriculture land.

Forest department teams carried out searches to find out the culprits but so far there has been no clue.

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