Months after a lion k!lled its handler at the Zoo of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, another handler has been killed by a lion at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State.
In February, a veterinary technologist working at OAU, Olabode Olawuyi, was killed by the wild animal which was later shot dead.
A similar horror happened on Saturday when 35-year-old Babaji Daule, a lion handler, forgot to lock and barricade the animal’s enclosure at the Zoological Garden of the library before approaching the cage to feed it.
Daule, who hailed from Bauchi State, was mauled to death.
One of the security guards had to shoot the lion for it to release its grip on the handler.
The body was later taken to the mortuary.
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