“It is chaos out here with everybody rushing to the scene. We ask the public to help us to stay away and help us to do our work,” said Mr Louw Steyn of the MTPA.
He confirmed to Lowvelder this morning that they came across a cow’s carcass this morning in a farmer’s kraal after they followed the lions’ tracks. The lions have now most probably split up in two groups.
At present, the MTPA are looking for the lions on the Mananga turn-off to Swaziland. Heavy mist has prevented them from being able to do a proper search.
Mr William Mabasa, acting head of Communications at SANParks, said to Lowvelder this morning that the lions are still outside of the Park and that the rangers are searching for them.
Mr Gerhardus Harmse, an electrician from Komatipoort, saw the two males and four females first at 5:00 yesterday morning a few kilometres away from the filling station on the way to the Lebombo Border Post.
