Sometime after the sun set Sunday, a group of men entered a dark South African reserve carrying a high-powered rifle, a silencer, an ax and a wire cutter — tools that poachers use to shoot and kill rhinos before sawing off their horns, according to Nick Fox, the owner of Sibuya Game Reserve.
Early the next morning, an anti-poaching dog on patrol started barking, and its handler heard a “loud commotion coming from the lions,” Fox told HeraldLive.
The men were apparently attacked by the big cats. Fox told Newsweek that a skull was later found in the area, as well as “one bit of pelvis,” but that “everything else was completely gone.