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Lioness shot dead after being found prowling along highway
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A lioness found prowling along a motorway in China after apparently jumping from a moving lorry has been shot dead by police, reports said Wednesday.
Officers took "more than 20 shots" to kill the lioness after deciding it would take "too long" to obtain a tranquillizer gun, reported the anhuinews.com portal.
The animal was thought to have jumped out of a loosely bolted cage on a lorry transporting it, and was first knocked down by another truck and lamed, it said.
It kept walking towards a service area, and highway staff used vehicles to set up a roadblock.
"Maybe because she was tired or saw there were too many cars, the lion stopped and laid down," the report cited Zhang Shuke, one of the staffers, as saying.
The stand-off lasted half an hour before police arrived and decided to shoot the animal "to protect peoples' lives", the report said.
No one had claimed the lioness, it added, with officials suspecting its owner feared punishment for unauthorized possession of the protected animal.
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