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Evil poachers butcher pride of lions to use body parts in black magic potions

One of the butchered lion members of the Pride. [Image: Supplied]

Evil poachers butchered a majestic pride of lions so their body parts could be used to make black magic potions. The sickening act of cruelty happened last Thursday at the 3,800-hectare Rietvlei Nature Reserve in Pretoria, South Africa.

The two male lions and two lionesses died in agony from poisoned meat and then had their jaws and paws hacked off with machetes to be sold on to witch doctors.

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