A TODDLER has been mauled to death by a lion after the beast dragged the boy away from his family.
Cops fear the crazed big cat devoured the three-year-old tot as only his head and legs have been recovered in Savarkundla, India.
Little Nitin Rakeshbhai Mehda was with his family at a farm in Ghanshyam Nagar when the lion pounced on him.
The beast dragged the youngster away as emergency services rushed to the scene.
Cops frantically hunted for Nitin but later made the grisly discovery of just his head and legs.
Authorities trying to track down the beast have laid traps in a bid to snare it, reports Desh Gujarat.
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It comes after a teen screamed "it's eating me" as she was mauled alive by a raging bear while she was on the phone to her mum.
Olga Moskalyova, 19, called her mother as the horrific attack was unfolding, and gave her a heart-breaking, hour-long commentary.
The Russian teen was mauled to death in 2011 by a brown bear and its three cubs, after the mother bear had already killed her stepfather.
Olga's mum Tatiana recalled her daughter screaming down the phone: "Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!"
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At the time Tatiana had no idea the bear had already overpowered her husband, Igor Tsyganenkov, and killed him by breaking his neck and smashing his skull.
Olga had watched the attack unfold and tried to flee, until the mother bear grabbed her leg.
But the creature didn't kill her instantly like her stepfather, it toyed with her – giving her time to phone her mother three times before she died.
Meanwhile, a schoolboy was almost savaged to death by a cougar that leapt at him from behind and clamped its jaws around his head on a camping trip.
The eight-year-old was reportedly playing with other children under the supervision of a close family friend at a site in Alberta, Canada, when the animal pounced.
Witnesses say the cougar bit down on the skull of little Cason Feuser in a bloody attempt to break his neck during the horrific incident in late July.
The animal was allegedly so large compared to the young boy that his whole head was almost in the beast's mouth.
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It is believed Cason had only survived because of the family's quick-thinking friend Alishea Morrison, 40, who grabbed a large rock and dropped it on the cougar's head – scaring it enough to let go of the boy and flee.
Cason's parents were an eight-hour drive away in nearby Dawson Creek for work when they got the heart-stopping call that he had been attacked by the big cat.
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