INDIAN officials have “arrested” 18 lions to find to try and root out a man eating beast suspected of killing three people.

Forest workers in Gujarat state are planning to test the lions’ paw prints and excrement in an attempt to identify the killer cat.

If ‘convicted’ the guilty beast will be banged up in a zoo for the rest of it’s days while the ‘innocent’ lions will be released back into the Gir sanctuary.

Six attacks on humans have been reported in the area recently, which is the only habitat of the endangered Asiatic lion.

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