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Zimbabwe: Lions Maul Two to Death in Kariba
6 March 2013


Two people were yesterday mauled to death by lions in Mahombekombe suburb in the resort town of Kariba.

Sources say the man only identified as Musinje and the woman Sharai Mawera, were attacked while spending time in a bushy area with the man managing to escape, leaving the woman behind.

Her body was found on the scene

The man went on to report the case to police who, with the assistance of officers from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, went in search of the lions. During the search they found an arm belonging to a man with investigations pointing to the lions having made a kill the previous night.

That, the sources say, could have been the reason the lions did not completely eat the woman. Residents of the town are now living in fear as the lions are still roaming freely as there are yet to be caught.

Police could not be reached for comment last night.

A man and a woman spending time in a bushy area. . . . . .hmmmmmmm

Sometimes news reporting can be rather confusing. Here is another virgin version:


A lion killed a woman while she was having sex in the bush with her boyfriend, reports have emerged. He managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom.


The woman, identified as Sharai Mawera, was mauled to death in the attack in Mahombekombe, Kariba in Zimbabwe. She was severely injured in her neck and stomach.

Her boyfriend, a fisherman who was not identified, heard the lion roar, MyZimbabwe reported. They had been having sex in a sideways position and he managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom.

He turned back to see Mawera being mauled and rushed to a nearby road for help.

Motorists refused to stop, however. As he was naked, it is presumed that many thought he was suffering from mental health problems.

A source said: "Later on people heard his plea and accompanied him to the police station, where he reported the matter.

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"Cops and officers from Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority attended the scene and fired at the animal.

"The woman had already been killed. She had bloody bruises all over her body. Her neck and tummy had been mauled."

A man in the same suburb of Kariba was mauled to death a week ago, police said. They believed he was attacked on his way home from a nightclub and said it could have been the same lion that killed Mawera.

Locals are living in fear of further attacks, the news site added.

While big cat attacks in Zimbabwe are fairly rare, another took place near the Zambesi River in 2010, when a man was killed by a pride of lions while he was bathing.

Tourist Pete Evershed was using an outside shower when four or five lions attacked.

Eight villagers were killed over the space of two months and the attacks only stopped when a pride of lions was killed.

At least is was safe sex.....

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Originally posted by Pieter Kriel:
Sometimes news reporting can be rather confusing. Here is another virgin version:


A lion killed a woman while she was having sex in the bush with her boyfriend, reports have emerged. He managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom.


The woman, identified as Sharai Mawera, was mauled to death in the attack in Mahombekombe, Kariba in Zimbabwe. She was severely injured in her neck and stomach.

Her boyfriend, a fisherman who was not identified, heard the lion roar, MyZimbabwe reported. They had been having sex in a sideways position and he managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom.

He turned back to see Mawera being mauled and rushed to a nearby road for help.

Motorists refused to stop, however. As he was naked, it is presumed that many thought he was suffering from mental health problems.

A source said: "Later on people heard his plea and accompanied him to the police station, where he reported the matter.

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Killer lion on the loose


"Cops and officers from Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority attended the scene and fired at the animal.

"The woman had already been killed. She had bloody bruises all over her body. Her neck and tummy had been mauled."

A man in the same suburb of Kariba was mauled to death a week ago, police said. They believed he was attacked on his way home from a nightclub and said it could have been the same lion that killed Mawera.

Locals are living in fear of further attacks, the news site added.

While big cat attacks in Zimbabwe are fairly rare, another took place near the Zambesi River in 2010, when a man was killed by a pride of lions while he was bathing.

Tourist Pete Evershed was using an outside shower when four or five lions attacked.

Eight villagers were killed over the space of two months and the attacks only stopped when a pride of lions was killed.

Wonder why that's not on the "Lionaid" website?

And no one stopped? Who wouldn't stop to help a naked man wearing a condom standing on the side of the road trying to flag down help -- probably with a bit of blood on him? Some pretty heartless folks in Zimbabwe. Right.

Lion also just killed a worker in Fresno Ca...some times the bush is closer than it seems...

Saw that as well under the caption "What caused the lion to attack?" It's a lion.

Ranger shot as hunt goes awry

http://www.herald.co.zw

Thursday, 07 March 2013 00:00

Herald Reporter
A senior official in the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority was
reportedly shot on Tuesday evening while in the process of baiting lions
that had killed two people in Mahombekombe, Kariba, earlier on the same day.

The ranger, who was not identified, was shot on the thigh and foot when a
lion attacked rangers who were tracking the animals.

National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority spokesperson Ms Caroline
Washaya-Moyo confirmed the incident.

“Yesterday in the evening, a senior ranger was shot by a stray bullet on the
thigh and the foot. He was immediately rushed to Kariba Hospital where he
was admitted.

“Currently he is in a stable condition and circumstances are that teams were
dispatched and had identified two lions which they suspected to be the ones
which killed people recently. While they were baiting them, a third lion
emerged from nowhere before it advanced towards the senior ranger.

“In the process of shooting the lion to save the senior ranger, he was
accidentally shot by the stray bullet in the foot. We cannot divulge the
name of the ranger before his relatives have been informed,” she said.

The lions attacked and killed a Kariba woman.
Reports have indicated that the national parks authorities have gone on a
massive campaign warning residents to be wary of the lions.

The two people were only identified as Musinjeni while the woman was
identified as Sharon Mahwere.
Mahwere’s body was found on the scene after a man she was with went on to
report to the police.

The police details and wildlife rangers tracked the lions and discovered an
arm belonging to a man with investigations pointing to the felines having
made a kill the previous night.

Sources say that could have been the reason why the lions did not completely
eat the woman.
The lions reportedly killed Jazel Meki Musinjeni (77) on Monday after he
left home for Big Two night club.

A passerby found Musinjeni’s remains including an arm and small intestines.
Musinjeni’s son Tichaona was called and positively identified his father’s
clothes including a cap, pair of trousers and shirt.

Mashonaland West police spokesperson Inspector Clemence Mabgweazara
confirmed the incident adding that the lions had not yet been captured.

“Two people have died so far after being attacked by lions in Kariba. We
would like to urge people to be on the lookout because we have very
dangerous animals on the loose,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mahwere (43) who had hooked up with Daniel Muzarabani and went
into a bush near Mahombekombe Primary School for a fling was attacked by the
lions.

Muzarabani fled leaving behind Mahwere who was killed by the lions.
Kariba residents yesterday said they were now afraid to walk just before
dusk as the attacks were carried out around that time.

The lions are believed to be moving in a pride of five.

I can just picture that, spray the jesse with automatic fire..........oh sorry Moyo my bad!
Now they will say these lions have juju !!

Musinje apparently had the last and only condom in Zimbabwe. Probably was his grandfather’s passed down from generation to generation. Good thing he didn’t lose it in all the excitement.

The only reason they have been eating people is because the locals have poached everything there,and there is nothing left for them to feed on other than people.

PAC hunt?

Eat me. Careful what you wish for.

http://www.newsday.com/news/wo...ller-lions-1.4775586


Zimbabwe rangers catch and put down 3 killer lions

Originally published: March 8, 2013 7:07 AM
Updated: March 8, 2013 8:14 AM
By The Associated Press ANGUS SHAW (Associated Press)




HARARE, Zimbabwe - (AP) -- Wildlife rangers in Zimbabwe said Friday three lions that killed two people near a suburb in the northern resort town of Kariba have been caught and put down.

The state wildlife department said a lioness and two "sub-adult" cubs between two and three years old were baited into traps and given lethal injections using darts late on Thursday. Sub-adults are about three-fourths of the size of the mother.

Rangers said the mother was lame from an injured leg that was badly swollen and was scarred from wresting itself free from an illegal wire animal trap set by poachers to catch smaller animals. The wounds accounted for the pride roaming close to Kariba's Mahombekombe township suburb, they said.

The lions devoured the body of one man on Tuesday and killed a woman nearby whose male companion escaped unhurt.

On Wednesday, rangers put the town on the shores of Lake Kariba, a man-made hydroelectric dam popular for fishing and tourism, on a full rogue lion alert. A zebra, among lions' usual prey, was shot as bait for the animals.

Police in Kariba said Friday a ranger laying the bait was accidently shot in the leg when colleagues opened fire on lions seen stalking toward him.

The wildlife department had warned townspeople against walking at night and crossing through thickets of bush where lions conceal themselves. It urged people in the area only to use wide and established roads.

Warning fliers distributed since Wednesday also warned "beer drinkers to avoid moving at night on foot." With the recent growth of outdoor Christian groups and religious and other tribal sects, the fliers advised their followers to "stop going for secretive prayers in thick vegetation" in and around the town.

One of the lions' victims Tuesday was a 70-year-old man headed for a bar on the outskirts of the township, and the dead woman had surreptitiously gone into the bush with a lover, neighbors said.

Lion attacks are not common close to urban settlements. In the past, elephants have roamed into Kariba's suburbs, causing several deaths in recent years. Victims were often heading home from late night taverns and bars.

Well said Pete,
A huge factor that lions Killing people in the kariba townships areas is the simple fact that the local people are poaching and snaring the prey animals to the extent that there is so little left that lions are forced to killing and eating people.
Hey, guess who gets the blame for it??? The lions being put down by nat parks who are the custodians for wild life in Zim!!!
So much for the future of lion hunting in zim, or any wild life for that matter!

Zimbabwe PH
pete458lott@gmail.com

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They had been having sex in a sideways position and he managed to escape wearing nothing but a condom.

How did he manage to escape and not the unfortunate companion?

Obviously he was not hurt as he had “Protection”.

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Sorry

That's why I'm a dog person.

Too bad the lions didn't kill about a million more.

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Originally posted by Will:
Too bad the lions didn't kill about a million more.

In Europe ( and the world ) it was enough to have Hitler !
Please all of you , HAVE GOOD SENSE .
Let us play and tell jokes but not with these kind of things.

You and your good sense furthers the demise of the African lion.

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Originally posted by Will:
You and your good sense furthers the demise of the African lion.

Heil Hitler !

Outrage as lion that killed woman as she made love to boyfriend is shot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Conservationists have reacted in outrage to the shooting of a wild lioness
and her two cubs in northwestern Zimbabwe after they killed two local people
last week.

By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and Aislinn Laing in Johannesburg 5:30PM GMT
10 Mar 2013

Sharai Mawere, 43, a market stall owner, was making love to her boyfriend at
a secluded spot in the bush near the northern town of Kariba when the
lioness struck on Tuesday.

Her lover escaped and alerted armed rangers who fired shots to scare the
animal away, but it was too late for Miss Mawere. She died at the scene.

Later that day, the head and pelvis of Mashunjeni Jakiel, 77, were found
near a suburb of Lake Kariba town. He had been missing since the weekend.

With fears growing that the lions had acquired a taste for human flesh and
would kill again, vets in Harare said they should be darted and moved to a
wildlife sanctuary.

Instead, they were shot by wardens from the Department of Parks and Wildlife
Authority and a professional hunter.

Johnny Rodriques from the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said the female
lioness had a wound from a snare around her neck, and had only started
attacking humans because poachers had decimated stocks of other animals
around Zimbabwe's vast Lake Kariba.

He said the three lions looking for food in an arid area close to a town was
"an accident waiting to happen".

"The lioness was wounded, there was no food for her to eat so she and her
cubs were a danger, and we should have been able to dart them and transfer
them across the dam to a protected area," he said.

"We have applied to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species (Cites) for Zimbabwe's lions to be declared an endangered species,"
Mr Rodriques said. "Zimbabwe is now very short of lions."

According to the Born Free Foundation, Africa now has fewer than 25,000
lions, compared to 200,000 lions 50 years ago.

Conservationists writing in last week's Ecology Letters journal said that
wild lions are killed because they are perceived to be a threat to
livestock, and competition for land and over-hunting of their prey have
reduced their numbers even further. They say that moving them in to
fenced-in nature reserves could be their only hope of survival.

Dr Luke Hunter, from the big cat conservation organisation Panthera, said:
"No one wants to resort to putting any more fences around Africa's
marvellous wild areas, but without massive and immediate increases in the
commitment to lion conservation, we may have little choice."

Cavan Warran, for the Kariba Animal Welfare Trust which helped arrange the
lions' shooting, said they wanted to dart and move them but the urgency of
the problem gave them no time. "These lions had tasted human flesh and after
consulting widely we concluded that they had to be euthanised immediately,"
he said.

Mr Waran said he was just over 100 yards away from the lions when they were
killed.

"We discussed darting and relocation after the first victim but when the
second victim's remains were found the vets all said they should be
destroyed," he said.

"If there was a zoo or a very controlled facility in Zimbabwe or resources
and we had a day or two then perhaps we could have arranged an alternative."

A Zimbabwean professional hunter who knows the area well told The Daily
Telegraph that poaching was "out of control".
"There is a lack of skills and a shocking lack of resources," the hunter,
who asked not to be named, said.

Sad about the peope and the lions. It seems a more sporting way to sort out the lions would be a spot and stalk hunt with a few brave hunters and a very brave tracker. Give the beasties a chance.

Zimbabwe resort town in new lion alert, after maulings, week of terror

http://www.washingtonpost.com

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, March 12, 2:00 AM

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Wildlife officials say they have renewed a lion alert at
the northern tourism and fishing resort town of Kariba after the reported
sighting of two more lions near the suburb where two people were mauled to
death last week.

The state wildlife authority said Monday the weekend sightings were in the
“same general area” around the Mahombekombe township suburb. Three rogue
lions were hunted down and killed there Thursday and Friday.

Officials said it was not proven that new “man eaters” have been sighted at
all. Rangers and volunteers are deploying before dawn Tuesday to look for
fresh lion tracks and echo animal calls to try and rouse any lions nearby.

After rogue lions terrified the townspeople last week, “everyone is seeing
lions in every shadow,” one official said.