Manhunt for lion poachers
The police in Bela-Bela on Monday 2 July continued with a manhunt for suspects who massacred six lions at a game farm in Rust de Winter.
The police in Bela-Bela on Monday 2 July continued with a manhunt for suspects who massacred six lions at a game farm in Rust de Winter.
Limpopo SAPS provincial spokesperson, Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe, said a farmworker on his way to work stumbled into bloodstains on the premises.
It was later discovered that four of the lions had been killed, with their heads and paws chopped off.
Two other maimed lions were found in the vicinity, but with no missing body parts.
Ngoepe said preliminary investigations suggested the lions might have been poisoned.
He said a pair of bloodstained trousers and sneakers were discovered at the scene of the alleged massacre.
Ngoepe added that the police had no identity of the suspects, and no arrests had, as at Monday, been made.
Anyone with information about the suspects involved in this matter ,may contact Colonel Alpheus Mokale at 082 565 6524, or the crime stop number 08600 10111 or the crime line SMS 32211, or the nearest police station.
Meantime, Ngoepe said, investigations were continuing.
— The BEAT
