Japanese dies after lion attack in Zim

HARARE – A Japanese woman has died in a Harare hospital after she was seriously wounded in an attack by a pride of lions during a guided tour at a park, police was quoted as saying yesterday.

The 50-year-old woman, a staff member of the Japanese embassy in Harare, went into an enclosure accompanied by a guide and another tourist at the Lion and Cheetah Park on Thursday. “One of the lions suddenly attacked the woman as she was about to leave the lions’ pen,” police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told the Sunday Mail.”Other lions, whose number we were not given, also went for the helpless woman and joined in the attack.””The guide and other employees from the Japanese embassy eventually managed to drive off the lions after stoning them,” said Bvudzijena.”The woman had sustained serious injuries by the time the lions were finally restrained,” he said, adding that the woman was taken to hospital and died on Friday.- Nampa-AFP”One of the lions suddenly attacked the woman as she was about to leave the lions’ pen,” police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told the Sunday Mail.”Other lions, whose number we were not given, also went for the helpless woman and joined in the attack.””The guide and other employees from the Japanese embassy eventually managed to drive off the lions after stoning them,” said Bvudzijena.”The woman had sustained serious injuries by the time the lions were finally restrained,” he said, adding that the woman was taken to hospital and died on Friday.- Nampa-AFP