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In reply to the discussion: Suspected poacher eaten by lions in South Africa [View all]irisblue
(33,056 posts)43. BBC Africa...today
"...locals were first alerted to something amiss by the sound of screams and scattered gunshots.
But it was too late to help.
Limpopo police spokesman Moatshe Ngoepe told news agency AFP: "It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions. They ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains."
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You have a wide-ranging and penetratingly discursive imagination, Ohiya. I think
Joe Chi Minh
Feb 2018
#57
I visited Kruger Park in 2009. It's well tended; poacher had to go out of his way to sneak a kill.
ancianita
Feb 2018
#42
For more scatalogical information, Solly, see Ohiya's post, above, at 8.35.
Joe Chi Minh
Feb 2018
#62
Suspected big cat poacher 'savaged and eaten alive by lion pride he was trying to hunt'
Judi Lynn
Feb 2018
#71