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Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898

Scientists finally able to estimate how many people eaten in 1898 lion rampage. The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.
 

Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898

Scientists finally able to estimate how many people eaten in 1898 lion rampage. The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.