{"id":1193392,"date":"2022-08-29T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/police-probes-circumstances-surrounding-man-killed-by-lion-at-accra-zoo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:23:40","slug":"police-probes-circumstances-surrounding-man-killed-by-lion-at-accra-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/police-probes-circumstances-surrounding-man-killed-by-lion-at-accra-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probes circumstances surrounding man killed by lion at Accra Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Police probes circumstances surrounding man killed by lion at Accra Zoo\" title=\"Police probes circumstances surrounding man killed by lion at Accra Zoo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Police says it has begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man allegedly killed by a lion at the Accra Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Service, the necessary forensic examinations have been conducted from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the necessary forensic examination of the scene, the body was removed and has been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/954BA8EE-3D50-4CA6-982A-B719849989DB-724x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Police probes circumstances surrounding man killed by lion at Accra Zoo\" class=\"wp-image-10032160732\" width=\"412\" height=\"582\"   title=\"Police probes circumstances surrounding man killed by lion at Accra Zoo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>It added that it will liaise with the Accra zoo\u2019s management to prevent its reoccurrence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police are working with the management of the zoo and the Forestry Commission to get to the bottom of this unfortunate incident,\u201d the service added.<\/p>\n<p>The lion killed the middle-aged man at the facility on Sunday, August 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Forestry Commission in a press statement said the intruder (victim) was spotted around the premises on Sunday at about 12 noon after he managed to scale the zoo\u2019s security fence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, he was attacked and injured \u2018within the inner fencing of the enclosure\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police says it has begun investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man allegedly killed by a lion at the Accra Zoo. According to the Service, the necessary forensic examinations have been conducted from the scene.\u00a0 \u201cAfter the necessary forensic examination of the scene, the body was removed and has been deposited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[813,22298,5163,14548,697,1650,6069,16920,8136],"class_list":["post-1193392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-accra","tag-circumstances","tag-killed","tag-lion","tag-man","tag-police","tag-probes","tag-surrounding","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}