Lioness dies of electric shock at farm alongside Gir jungle

Sasan Gir: A lioness died by coming into contact with an electricity cable set-up around a farm to protect his standing crop from vermin in Jira village in Dalkhaniya range of Gir East.

The electric fence was set-up by connecting it to an electricity line to save the crops from animals like Neelgay, blue bull, pigs etc in the farm. A person working as a portioner in the farm named Jithrabhai Nathubhai Bhil from Madhya Pradesh is held in this case. The dead-body of the lioness is sent for Post Mortem by the forest department. The dead-body was found on Thursday from the farm owned by Mukeshbhai Kanubhai Bambhroliya. DeshGujarat