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Daily Mirror
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Steven White

Kenya's terrorising man-eating lions that killed and ate 135 people in just nine months

A pair of lions in Kenya picked off and ate more than 100 people over half a year at the end of the 20th century.

The 'man eaters of Tsavo', as they became known, were two male lions who hunted construction workers in the savanna region building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river.

The killings of 1898 spanned from March to December and are the largest number of human deaths caused by lions - totalling 135.

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