Man Eating Lions of Kruger National Park

On the Mozambique border with South Africa, real lions are still feasting on people today. In short, the animals have taken to eating those who are evading the law. In Kruger National Park South Africa illegal immigrants from mozambique seeking work in Johannesburg have been taking a short cut through the park. Lying in wait for them have been Kruger national park lions.

Nobody knows the actual number of people that have been eaten, but the problem was first noticed in 1980 and has steadily become worse. At first only one or two people were known to have been eaten by lions each year such as a mother and her son killed close to Pafuri Camp a few days after Christmas 1996. Read more