Shamba the Lion killed after attack on game park owner
One of the tourists on the tour had a revolver on him and shot into the air to try and scare the lion off. When Mike’s daughter heard the shot, she ran to the scene and instructed the tourist to shoot the lion, Northern Review reports.
Shamba, who is the main attraction at Marakele Animal Sanctury’s ‘Lion Mobile’ tour was shot dead after he mauled owner, Mike Hodge.
Britsh born Hodge, is recovering in hospital with injuries to his neck and jaw.
After coming from the UK to South Africa in 1999, Mike and Chrissy Hodge began with their Lion project in 2003 on a farm 30kms from Thabazimbi and the Marakele Animal Sanctuary was formed in December 2010.
Read: SANParks says lion attack did not happen at its park
Review spoke to Anton van Wetten from the Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism who said the behaviour of the lion could best be described as ‘playing’. He added that in order to kill a lion, one needs to have a permit.
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