Addis Ababa - A lion ate a local man in eastern Ethiopia after escaping from a game park, police said on Sunday. Staff at the Metehara sugar factory ventured into a nearby cane plantation last week to search for a missing worker.
"They came upon a lion and the field was soaked with blood," a police
spokesman, Commander Demsash Hailu, told Reuters. "The lion escaped
but they found the missing man's head."
He said they suspected the big cat had strayed from the Awash Game
Park, 225km east of the capital Addis Ababa. Ethiopia's national symbol
is the rare black-mane lion, which is on the currency and often
depicted in statues.
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