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Our
very own Pam Madsen Keagy and her husband Bob went to Africa on a hunt
for man eating lions on an Ethiopian sugar plantation. Click here
for the story published in Peterson's hunting this July.
The story really begins with the following Reuters report. Lion kills Ethiopian after straying from park 21 Sep 2008 09:09:09 GMT Source: Reuters ADDIS ABABA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - 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, some 225
km (140 miles) 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. (Reporting by Tsegaye Tadesse; Writing by Daniel
Wallis; Editing by Myra MacDonald) |