{"id":25217,"date":"2022-08-29T04:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T04:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25217"},"modified":"2022-08-29T04:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T04:19:32","slug":"accra-zoo-lion-mauls-intruder-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/08\/29\/accra-zoo-lion-mauls-intruder-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Accra Zoo lion mauls &#8216;intruder&#8217; to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lion has mauled a middle-aged man to death at the Accra Zoo within the Achimota Forest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Forestry Commission said the incident occurred at mid-day Sunday, 28 August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cintruder\u201d, according to the statement, breached the cage of a lion, lioness and their two cubs, provoking an attack from the big cats that left him with scathing injuries and subsequently, led to his death.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by the CEO of the Forestry Commission, Mr John Allotey, said: \u201cAround 12:00 hours today, 28th August 2022, officials of the Accra Zoo, on a routine patrol, noticed a middle-aged man (an intruder) had jumped the security fences and entered the lions\u2019 enclosure of the zoo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\" title=\"Advertisement\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motive of the intruder is yet to be determined\u201d, the statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intruder was attacked and injured by one of the lions within the inner fencing of the enclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intruder has been confirmed dead from injuries sustained, and the body has been conveyed to the morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Forestry Commission statement assured the general public that \u201cno lion has escaped from the Accra Zoo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896-226x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896-771x1024.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896-768x1021.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896-750x997.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2022\/08\/A557E31B-D92D-4671-9ED4-A228C5528896.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lion has mauled a middle-aged man to death at the Accra Zoo within the Achimota Forest. &nbsp; A statement from the Forestry Commission said the incident occurred at mid-day Sunday, 28 August 2022. The \u201cintruder\u201d, according to the statement, breached the cage of a lion, lioness and their two cubs, provoking an attack from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54],"tags":[4553,13170,6595,6771,5304,6083,7234,1094,11111,11525,11973,5655,11906,6660],"class_list":["post-25217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-obituary","tag-accra","tag-achimota","tag-achimota-forest","tag-achimota-forest-reserve","tag-attack","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-forestry-commission","tag-injured","tag-injuries","tag-one","tag-security","tag-the-general","tag-zoo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}