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Topic Started: Jun 1 2015, 03:08 PM (111 Views)
George K
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Horrible: Tourist killed by lion in park.
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A 22-year-old American woman has been mauled to death and another person seriously injured after being pulled through their car window by a lion in a safari park in South Africa

The tourist and her companion, thought to be a South African tour guide, were taking a 'routine' drive through the 20-acre compound containing about a dozen big cats near Johannesburg.

Gauteng Lion Park employee Scott Simpson, 28, told Daily Mail Online: 'The lion approached from the left of the vehicle, the passenger side and walked quite close to the car.

'The witnesses said they saw the guests taking pictures of the lion from a meter away, then the lion lunged at the car and bit the lady through the window.'

Mr Simpson said park staff rushed to pull the lioness off the young woman and carried out CPR. Paramedics were called but could do nothing to save her.

'When the paramedics were treating the lady she unfortunately passed away,' he said.

He has been working for less than a year at the Park, which is an hour from Johannesburg.

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Bummer of a vacation.
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George K
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Mikhailoh
Jun 1 2015, 04:26 PM
Bummer of a vacation.
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Lots of foolish risk taking at national parks in the US, too. Some people assume the parks have tame animals. They also don't seem to understand that the lack of railings on the trails doesn't mean it's okay to let your small kids run ahead of you on the narrow trail next to the steep drop off to the stream below.
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Jun 1 2015, 04:49 PM
Lots of foolish risk taking at national parks in the US, too. Some people assume the parks have tame animals. They also don't seem to understand that the lack of railings on the trails doesn't mean it's okay to let your small kids run ahead of you on the narrow trail next to the steep drop off to the stream below.
Yup. Recent story about a Taiwan exchange student in Yellow Stone Park in teh US who was injured by a bison. People seem to think that the animals are not wild.
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