3 escaped lions in South Africa are shot and killed
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Officials in South Africa say three lions that escaped from the country's biggest wildlife park have been shot and killed.
The national parks service said Friday that a farmer near Kruger National Park killed one lion and wounded another after a cow carcass was found on his farm.
It says park staff in a helicopter located the remaining lions and decided to kill them rather than dart and return them to the park as originally hoped.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Officials say the uninjured lion had to be killed partly because lions that eat cattle develop a taste for livestock and could pose a bigger threat to humans.
TimesLIVE, a news website, quotes parks spokeswoman Janine Raftopoulos as saying three lions had escaped Sunday, not four as previously thought.