A young girl has been killed by a lion while relieving herself at night at the back of a hut in a rural part of Zimbabwe, a police spokesman

Mitchell Mucheni had gone behind her house in the southeastern Chiredzi district to relieve herself, but when she did not return her aunt went to look for her, according to The Chronicle state newspaper.

Mawonei Muchacha saw the lion dragging her niece away and later recovered her body after desperately searching for her with the help of a neighbour, the paper said.

Police spokesperson Kudakwashe Dehwa told The Chronicle: “They were guided by a trail of bloodstains until they stumbled on Mitchell’s lifeless body, some 300 metres from the homestead.”

Reports of fatal lion attacks on humans are not uncommon in remote areas of rural Zimbabwe.

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