Lion eats girl’s palm at Chhattisgarh zoo
November 16th, 2009 - 2:17 pm ICT by IANSRaipur, Nov 16 (IANS) A lion attacked a little girl, detached her right palm in the presence of dozens of visitors and ate it Sunday evening at the government-run Nandan Van zoo on the outskirts of state capital Raipur.
“Four-and-half-year-old Sapna Malik had visited the zoo with her uncle Asim Malik and was holding the enclosure wire fence in which a lion was kept. The lion attacked the girl in a flash and removed her right palm and ate it while the family cried for help,” zoo in-charge R.S. Mishra told IANS.
The girl cried for about 30 minutes near the lion’s enclosure before a fellow visitor rushed her to a private hospital.
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