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An American woman was dragged to her death and another person seriously injured after being pulled through their car window by a lion in a safari park in South Africa.
The two tourists were reportedly travelling with their windows open when the lion got inside. The woman was killed and the driver critically injured at Gauteng Lion Park near Johannesberg.
The park's manager Scott Simpson said: 'We don't know exactly what happened, we do know that there was a car driving to the lion camp and the lion did come through the window and it did bite the lady. Unfortunately the ambulance arrived quite soon but the lady has passed away.'
It is believed that the lion jumped through the window, bit the woman, and a man was injured trying to pull the lion off, although the park is still trying to establish exactly what happened.
It's the third bug cat attack in the park in the Honeydew area of Johanessburg in four months, reports ENCA. An Australian tourist, Brendan Smith, from Perth, was attacked by a lion in in March and two days after that, a 13-year-old boy was attacked by a cheetah.
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Mr Simpson said visitors to the park are warned not to leave their windows open to avoid incidents like the latest tragedy.
He told ENCA: 'We make it so clear. We put signage up everywhere that people must keep their windows closed. We hand them a slip of paper when they enter the park, I really don't understand why people think its okay to leave windows open,' he said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ndow-open-went-South-African-safari-park.html