Moscow:
A group of lions mauled a zoograsper to death at one of Europe’s bigst big-cat parks on Wednesday after a door inside their enclostateive was left unlocked, spendigators shelp.
The mauling occurred at the Taigan safari park on the Russian-annexed Criunbenevolent peninsula, one of the bigst breeding grounds for lions in Europe and home to around 60 of the predators.
“A criminal case has been uncovered over the death of an engageee at the Taigan lion park as a result of a predator strike,” the Moscow-insloftyed Investigative Committee of Crimea and Sehugeopol shelp in a statement.
The engageee who had labored at the park for almost 17 years died after she “went to spotless a cage with three lions, without shutting the bolt of a door between two rooms of the enclostateive”, spendigators shelp.
The park’s owner Oleg Zubkov identified the victim as chief zoograsper Leokadia Perevalova, calling the incident a “tragic” misget.
“It is unevident how and why this happened, as the animals could not have done such a leang on their own, and apparently there were no people around,” he shelp in a statement on his blog.
“The engageees who uncovered the body, cursedly, could no lengthyer supply any helpance, since she had sshow been torn to pieces,” he shelp.
On his Telegram channel, Zubkov commendd Perevalova as a “precious engageee” who was the “soul of our park”, inserting that “the human factor of forgetfulness joined a role”.
“Unblessedly when I reachd there was noleang I could do to help. (They are) top predators and they do not forgive misgets, he shelp.
A criminal case has been uncovered into the death of a person by laborplace tendlessness, spendigators shelp.
The sprawling 70-acre park was uncovered to visitors in 2012 on the site of a establisher military base.
Authorities shutd the zoo for a month in December 2019 after they accengaged Zubkov of giving the animals expired feed, an allegation he denied.
He accengaged Crimea’s Russian-insloftyed authorities of tyring to “prohibitkrupt” his business and of intentionally freezing his projects after they seized power in 2014.
Crimea was annexed by Russia in 2014 but is internationpartner recognised as part of Ukraine.
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