Train runs over another Guj lion...
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Rajkot: Another lion was hit by a goods train — this time near Bhammar in Gujarat’s Savarkundla taluka of Amreli district on Saturday....
more... “The two-and-a-half-year-old lion was crossing the railway tracks when it was hit by the train,” said Anshuman Sharma, deputy conservator of forests, Gir (east) division.
Sharma said a forest department team went to the spot, tranquilized the lion and took it to the animal care centre at Jasadhar, where it died of injuries. The postmortem revealed the lion died of internal injuries and multiple organ failure.
This is the third instance of an accident involving a lion and a goods train in this part of Amreli district. Earlier, two lionesses, one of them pregnant with three cubs, were run over by a train on January 22 near Pipavav Port. In September last year, a six month-old-female cub was run over by a goods train near Uchaiya village on the Rajula-Dhola railway track.
Forest department officials will meet the divisional railway manager of Bhavnagar to discuss the incident and chalk out an action plan, according to CN Pandey, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife).
Sources said over a hundred lions have settled in various parts of Amreli and are frequently visible on revenue land and often cross railway tracks. Villagers and wildlife activists have been demanding trains move at a slow pace in this area.
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