NEWSLINK: Poachers kill 16 lions with poison chicken before hacking off their paws and faces

Poachers have killed 16 lions at a safari park in South Africa and sliced off their faces for use in black magic rituals and potions.


The butchered bodies of the slaughtered big cats were discovered on Friday morning at Predators Rock Bush Lodge near the city of Rustenburg.


Gert Blom, owner of the park, said he went to investigate after growing concerned having not heard the roar of his lions, only to find their carcasses laid out on the ground without their paws and snouts, which had been brutally cut off by the poachers killed them.

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