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Lioness attacks and kills zoo worker in South Africa

Lioness attacks and kills zoo worker in South Africa

Lioness attacks and kills zoo worker in South Africa
August 28
17:22 2020

A lioness sprung at the throat of a zoo worker on a rural conservation farm and killed him, apparently because security gates were left open, the Johannesburg Zoo said Tuesday.

Associates heard Joe Ramonetha shouting on Monday and raced to help yet it was past the point of no return, said zoo representative Letta Madlala. The 63-year-old was pronounced dead on landing in the emergency clinic, she said.

Mr. Ramonetha had been taking care of the 11-year-old lioness or wiping out her nook on the zoo’s preservation ranch in Parys, around 75 miles (120 kilometers) from Johannesburg, Ms. Madlala said.

Examiners discovered “It was obvious that a horrible mishap had happened – doors were left open – the episode in this way happened because of human blunder,” the zoo’s leader director for training, Louise Gordon, said in an announcement later. She said there had not been a lethal creature assault at the zoo in 50 years.

“The staff is prepared to close all doors on entering the office, to let the lions out into the external camp region, secure the doorways to the night rooms and section before any work initiated,” Ms. Gordon said. “Joe was assaulted in the staff entry and supported a lethal chomp twisted to his throat.”

Mr. Ramonetha had worked for the zoo since 1970 and is made due by his significant other and four grown-up kids.

Zoo supervisors would meet to choose the destiny of the lioness called Nyanga, Ms. Madlala said.

South Africa has around 2,700 free-going lions and 4,000 lions in captivity.4

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