TimesLive reports that a Limpopo game lodge worker has died after he was attacked by lions that escaped from a neighbouring reserve.  

Justice Cebekhulu and a colleague were cutting wood near the Lion Treetop Lodge in Hoedspruit when two white lions escaped from their enclosure.  Lion Treetop Lodge is renowned for its "walking with white lions" experience.  The lions escaped after climbing a tree and jumping over the fence of their enclosure.  Lion Treetop Lodge owner, West Mathewson, said the attack, which he said occurred because the lions wanted to play, was the first of its kind at his establishment.  An Mpumalanga health department spokesman advised that Cebekhulu had died from natural causes, not from the injuries sustained in the lion attack.

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