2 lioness found dead in a village close to Eastern spread of Gir forest in Gujarat in 3 days, poisoning suspected

Amreli: The body of yet another lioness was found in a village of Amreli district in the eastern range of Gir forests in Gujarat today from where the body of another lioness was found two days ago.

Both the deaths seems to be case of poisoning.

DCF of Dhari T Karupasami today said that a body of 2 to 3 year old lioness was found from a revenue area of Lakha Padar village today. From the same village the body of a lioness of more or less the same age was found two days ago.

The matter was under investigation.

Meanwhile CCF, Junagadh A K Singh said that in the primary reports the doctors coducting post mortem have indicated the suspicion of poisoning.

‘We are sending the vicera to FSL for further investigation,’ he said.

Meanwhile the local buzz was that the two big cats were killed by putting poisoned dead lamina in the village which was consumed by them leading to their death.

Karupasami on the other hand said that he would prefer to wait till the end of the investigation before drawing any conclusion.

Notably, Gir is the sole abode of Asiatic liions in the world which is home to over 500 such animals as per 2015 lion census.

DeshGujarat