A safari guide has been mauled to death in Zimbabwe\u2019s Hwange National Park, where Cecil the lion lived.<\/p>\n
Camp Hwange has named the guide as 40-year-old Zimbabwean Quinn Swales.<\/p>\n
Camp Hwange said in a statement that the attack happened on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
It said professional guide Quinn Swales was taking guests on a photographic walking safari.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood Swales was attacked when a male lion unexpectedly charged and he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n
This tragic incident comes after the global spotlight was turned on Hwange last month, when Cecil the lion was killed by US dentist Walter Palmer.<\/p>\n
Swales\u2019s last post on Facebook is a photo of a lion that is almost certainly Cecil.<\/p>\n
Source: EWN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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