Overview
- Katherine Chappell, a special effects editor on Game of Thrones, was fatally mauled at Lion Park near Johannesburg.
- Eyewitnesses said she lowered a car window to photograph a resting lion, which then lunged through the opening and attacked.
- Guide Pierre Potgieter tried to intervene from the passenger seat and later suffered a heart attack, according to reports.
- Lion Park’s Scott Simpson said police and park staff have opened an investigation and that visitors receive slips and see signage instructing them to keep windows shut.
- The park markets “super close-up views,” as wildlife specialist Kevin Richardson warns habituated lions may lose their fear of humans, reinforcing calls to follow safety rules.