Ghana
Man jumps into lion enclosure at zoo and is fatally injured
A man was killed by a lion at Accra Zoo (archive photo)
© Sven Hoppe / DPA
A man breaks into a lion enclosure at the city’s zoo in Accra, Ghana. The big cat attacks the intruder – with a fatal outcome.
A man has been killed by a lion at Accra Zoo in Ghana after he entered the cat’s enclosure. On a routine patrol, zoo employees saw a middle-aged man jump over the security barrier of the lion’s enclosure, the Ghana Forestry Commission said on Sunday. “The intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions.” The man succumbed to his injuries.
Police in Ghana are investigating the death
In order to recover the man’s body, the lion and a lioness and their two cubs were temporarily locked in a cage. It was said that it was still being checked why the man went to the lions’ enclosure. The zoo turned on the police. This also checks how the man could get into the enclosure, as a police spokesman for the AFP news agency said.
Accra Zoo was originally founded as a private menagerie by Ghana’s first President, Kwame Nkrumah, in the early 1960s. After Nkrumah’s fall in 1966, the zoo was opened to the public.