Welcome back to Scary Animal Attacks! Today’s episode takes us to the hot African savannah located along the Luangwa River Valley near the village of Mfuwe in Eastern Zambia. The climate is a tropical climate with a long summer rainy season leading to tall grasses and lots of animals dashing across the high plateau. The cool dry winters stresses the plants and animals enough that mass migrations of nearly every kind of animal are a yearly event and part of the cycle of nutrients and energy.
In early summer 1991, two young boys were playing far too late after sunset. They were having fun playing and had lost track of time and were walking through the darkness returning home. As they walked, they were being followed by a very interested and dangerous party from the tall grass.
As the boys neared a point that the cover and road they were traveling on converged, a giant lion sprang from the grass and knocked one of the boys to his back. The lion bit the boy in the neck and subdued him in mere seconds. Upon seeing his friend taken down and killed the other boy ran to get help. After running through the dark the boy found some Game Rangers and the authorities were called.
The game rangers showed up and closed in on the attack scene firearms at the ready. As they searched the attack scene all that remained of the young man were a few tattered bits of his clothing, only part of his chewed up skull and a few bone fragments.
Almost 30 days later, a woman was walking around the edge of her village after gathering some necessities. As she arrived at her home she put her provisions away and began her typical tasks as she readied for evening time. The giant lion stealthily crept up to her front door and knocked it down. It entered her hut and bit and clawed the woman severely. It wasn’t long before the woman was too injured to continue the fight for her life, and she died.
Upon discovering the attack scene, the authorities searched the scrub bush near the woman's hut and eventually found her remains. The lion had consumed off of her body with the exception of her head and her arms. Her remains were buried and the terror continued.
The next night, a young man had made an agreement with one of his friends to sneak out and meet up. They were just planning on messing around and having fun together. On his way to the meeting point the young man was ambushed by the giant lion right in front of the Game Rangers office. The lion knocked the boy to the ground and began biting and clawing him around the head and neck just as he had done to prior victims.
A game ranger was nearby and overheard the attack. He stood up and fired his rifle into the air. The lion was startled and ceased the attack on the young man. The lion ran for the grass leaving the young man with severe neck lacerations. The young man was taken to the hospital for immediate care, but the injuries he sustained during the attack would be too devastating and he lost his life a short time later.
Over the next few weeks three more fatal lion attacks occured. One of which involved a village woman on her porch. In the middle of broad daylight and just outside her door, a hunter lurked in the tall grass. As the local group of Game Rangers approached her hut the giant lion appeared and savaged the woman right before their eyes. They fired a warning shot and the beast disappeared into the grass unscathed.
The Game Rangers arrived but only a few moments too late to help the woman as the lion had inflicted lethal wounds to her body.
The villagers and authorities were at a loss for finding the predatory cat and decided to take the local lion pride down a few individuals. They set out on short hunting trips and seemingly randomly chose a lioness to blame and shot her, but that did not stop the attacks.
Near the village of Ngozo a village woman named Jesleen was on edge ever since hearing of the attacks. She had just bagged her laundry to take to the river the next day for cleaning and layed down in her bed. While she slept the giant lion knocked down her door and snatched her from her bed. Jesleen screamed in terror and pain as she was dragged off into the bush. The lion consumed her body, but would be back.

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