Shocking video shows elderly US man being mauled by a lion after entering its enclosure in South Africa

Shocking footage has emerged of a lion mauling an elderly man after he entered its enclosure in an animal sanctuary in Limpopo, South Africa.

The graphic and potentially upsetting footage, which can be viewed below, shows the lion apparently being led away from the enclosure’s entrance by a park worker on the other side of a wire fence, when the elderly man opens a door and enters.