Killed by rangers: The lions who ate woman having sex with her boyfriend

A pride of lions that ate two people - including a woman having sex outdoors with her boyfriend - were caught and killed by rangers today.

A lioness and two cubs between two and three years old were lured into traps and given lethal injections, the Zimbabwe wildlife department said after the two deaths at a lakeside resort.

Rangers said the mother was lame from a badly swollen injured leg and scarred from wresting itself from a wire trap set by poachers.

The injury brought the pride close to the town of Kariba, where the woman and a man were killed in separate attacks.

Victim Sharai Mawera’s lover fled naked as the beast pounced on them in the undergrowth at a secluded spot on Tuesday.

The resort of Kariba had been put on full alert after the rogue lions struck.

Fliers were handed out in the town and a loudspeaker was used to caution people on the dangers of lion attacks on the shores of Lake Kariba, a man-made dam popular with fishermen and tourists.

Local police said a ranger laying a dead zebra as bait for the lions was accidentally shot in the leg when colleagues opened fire on lions seen stalking toward him.

source:www.mirror.co.uk