Police and the Uganda Wildlife Authority have started a hunt for lions that killed a woman in Ibanda district.
Gladys Komworeko was found killed in the bush near her home where she was grazing cows.
The lions also eat several animals leaving residents in fear.
LC 3 Chairperson of Nsasi sub county, Benon Keimutsya says over over 40 goats, 60 chicken and five cows have been eaten by the lions in just a month.
Preliminary police investigations reveal about three lions suspected to have escaped from a national park have been on rampage attacking homes.