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White lion dies at Bangabandhu Safari Park

A white lion has died at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Sreepur, Gazipur.

The lion died on Friday afternoon, park authorities said.

Bangabandhu Safari Park Project Director Jahidul Kabir said that four of the five lions went to the park’s core safari at around 4 pm on Friday to give food as usual, but one did not come to eat.

The frozen body of the lion can be seen there. Doctors working at the safari park later went to the spot and confirmed the death of the lion.

However, the park authorities could not reveal the exact cause of death of the lion who died at the age of 8/9 years.

There were two white lions out of 13 lions in the safari park. Of these there is now only one white lion after the death of this lion.

Hatem Sajjad Zulkar Nain, a veterinary doctor working in the safari park said, the cause of death was not known. The lion, however, was comparatively a little thicker; So it is initially thought that he could die by heatstock.

He said the lion would be sent to the Dhaka Central Disease Investigation Lab for autopsy to find out the real cause of death.

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