DUNLAP – A 26-year-old woman who volunteered at Project Survival's Cat Haven in the foothills east of Fresno was killed Wednesday when she was attacked by a 4-year-old male African lion in its enclosure.
A co-worker tried in vain to draw the lion away from the woman and into another enclosure. An arriving Fresno County sheriff's deputy, seeing the lion would not let anyone provide medical aid to the woman, shot and killed the animal.
The Associated Press reported that her father identified the victim as Dianna Hanson of Brier, Wash. Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, said he drove his daughter from her home on New Year's Day, arriving at Cat Haven Jan. 2.
Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Cat Haven, said the lion that was killed Wednesday was named Cous Cous. She said he was hand-raised at the Dunlap haven since he was an 8-week-old cub.
The man who opened Cat Haven in 1998 and has kept it going on a shoestring budget was visibly shaken as he talked about the attack Wednesday afternoon.
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