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Lion in Tanzania (symbolic picture)
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Lions killed three children and injured another child near a nature reserve in Tanzania.
The children between the ages of nine and eleven had previously set out to search for missing cattle in the reserve.
This is reported by the AFP news agency, citing police information.
Accordingly, the incident occurred in a forest near the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
There the minors were attacked by at least one big cat.
The Ngorongoro area in the north of Tanzania is a Unesco World Heritage Site, where not only lions but also other big cats such as leopards live.
Tanzania allows certain semi-nomadic peoples like the Maasai to live within the area.
Tanzania recently started resettlement campaigns for lions
Last year Tanzania announced that it would relocate 36 lions from Serengeti Park to another nature reserve.
Previously, the predators had clashed with humans and farm animals several times.
Some of the Serengeti lions were then taken to a national park in the northwest of the country.
As the Tanzanian newspaper "The Citizen" reports, citing one of the children's teachers, the children killed are said to be members of a family.
The predators ate the children almost completely.
fek / AFP