Lions kill man trying to enter Ghana zoo

Ghanaian authorities are investigating the case of a man who broke into a zoo’s cage on Sunday 28/8 and was killed by lions.

The victim’s body, a middle-aged man, was removed from the zoo in Ghana’s capital, Accra, and taken to a local morgue.

Authorities suspect the man is planning to steal two rare white lion cubs, which have become a major attraction since their birth last November. However, investigations into the reason for the invasion and the conditions of the attack will continue.

The zoo was temporarily closed to visitors after the incident that shocked many in Ghana.

There was a lion, a lioness and two white cubs in the cage at the time of the incident.

“When lions have cubs and someone gets too close, they can sense that you are trying to catch their cubs,” Benito Owusu Bio, Deputy Minister of Soil and Natural Resources, told reporters.

We urge the public not to do such a thing,” he said.

The intruder climbed a 10-foot fence, then a 20-foot fence, to enter the cage. puppies? Is it born from a male lion and a female lion with recessive features called leucism, which is different from albinism? have been important attractions in the zoo.

According to the Global White Lion Protection Trust, there are about a dozen white lions in the wild.

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