Ethiopian lions eat 20 people, injure 10 others

A pride of hungry lions has killed and devoured 20 villagers, injured 10 others and eaten at least 70 cattle in southern Ethiopia in the past week, police said today.

The attacks forced at least 1,000 people to flee their homes in Hadia Zone, in the Southern Nation and Nationalities People State, 250 miles north of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.