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A lion mauled a 22-year-old woman to death at a private game lodge close to South Africa’s capital Pretoria, on Tuesday.
Rekord newspaper, citing emergency services, reports that the victim was attacked by the lioness near Hammanskraal, roughly 45 kilometres (30 miles) north of Pretoria around 0900 GMT.
“When Netcare 911 paramedics arrived at the scene, bystanders had initiated (resuscitation). Tragically, the victim had sustained severe injuries and she died at the scene,” Nick Dollman, spokesman for the Netcare 911 ambulance service, told the paper.
Netcare 911 confirmed the incident on its Twitter account.
Police were investigating, Dollman added.
AFP reports that earlier this month a suspected poacher was mauled to death and eaten by a pack of lions close to South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park.