In a shocking incident, a man was mauled to death by a lion after he attempted to enter its enclosure at a zoo in Ghana.?The incident took place on August 28,?at Accra Zoo in Ghana's capital.?
Security guards on a routine patrol noticed that the middle-aged man had climbed over a tall mesh fence and into the restricted area, which contained a lion, lioness and two cubs.??
It is not yet clear why the man climbed inside, and police are investigating.
"The intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions, within the inner fencing of the enclosure," the forestry commission said in a statement.
The statement went on to read that the man had died from wounds he suffered in the attack at the Accra Zoo.?The man's body was retrieved and taken to a nearby morgue after zookeepers lured the?animals?into a security hole.
A police spokesman said: "We're investigating the case to establish how the man got into the restricted area."
The Accra Zoo was first established as a private menagerie in the early 1960s by Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah. The Accra Zoo was opened to the public in 1966.??
Earlier, a?lioness?killed a zookeeper as he was feeding her lunch then escaped with her male partner before the pair was captured again in Iran.?The 40-year-old victim, identified only by his family name, Esfandani, had?been feeding a lioness when she and another lion managed to open their cage and attack him, state-run?IRNA?news agency said.? ?
Police?and guards captured the couple a few hours later at the zoo in the central city of Arak, some 200 kilometres southwest of the capital, Tehran.??
"The lioness, which has been in the zoo for several years, managed to open a door of the cage, get out and then attack the 40-year-old guard who had just brought food to the pair of felines," a zoo employee told state broadcaster?IRIB.??
Such incidents are rare in Iran and are often blamed on poor safety measures and inadequate emergency services.??
In 2020, a?zookeeper?in China was mauled to death by bears at the Shanghai Wild Animals Park.?The staff member was attacked while working in the "wild area", where dangerous animals such as bears and tigers roam around relatively freely.??
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