Gujarat police probing the widely condemned incident of thrashing of Dalits in Una town of Gir Somnath district by 'cow vigilantes' has found that the cow being skinned by the Dalits, was killed by lions.

While probing the Dalit flogging incident near Mota Samadhiyala village in Una taluka, the CID officials said they learnt from eyewitnesses that the cow was killed by lions on the intervening night of July 10 and 11.