The teen previously snuck into the landing gear of an Africa-bound plane in pursuit of his dream to tame lions.

THIS is the horrifying moment a teen broke into a lion enclosure at a Brazilian zoo – before meeting a tragic end. Gerson ...

Gerson de Melo Machado, 19, was mauled to death after he invaded a lioness' enclosure at Parque Zoobotanio Arruda Camara in ...

A teenager, who dreamt of training big cats, was fatally attacked by a lioness at a zoo in Brazil on Sunday, Nov. 30.

The unidentified man was believed to be suffering from mental health problems when he scaled the wall to the Brazilian zoo ...

A TEENAGER mauled to death by a lioness in front of horrified visitors at a Brazil zoo has been pictured for the first time.

Tragic Machado was well-known to police after an earlier incident when he breached airport security to reach Africa.

In January, F. Iriskulov was killed by lions at a zoo in Uzbekistan after entering their pen to film a video. Last year, a man was killed by a lion after entering its enclosure, apparently to take a ...

Zoo officials in eastern Brazil say a man has died after being mauled by a lion on Sunday. They add the man “deliberately ...

Gerson de Melo Machado was filmed making his way into the enclosure at Arruda Camera Park in Brazil before tragedy struck ...