Lions that kill humans are normally tracked and put down to prevent further attacks

A safari guide has been mauled to death by a lion in front of a group of tourists at the game park where Cecil the lion lived before he was killed by an American dentist last month.

Quinn Swales, 40, was leading six foreign tourists on a walking safari inside Hwange National Park on Monday when he was attacked. “He spotted fresh lion spoor, and decided to track a pride of lions consisting of two females, two cubs and two males,” the Zimbabwe Parks authority said.

The cubs approached the tourists and the adults retreated — before one of the males suddenly charged Mr Swales, knocking him over and mauling his throat and shoulder. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital at Victoria Falls