According to local reports he had shot another lion dead before the accident happened while he was taking aim at a second victim.
He was in the North West province and friend Slavko Pernar said he wanted to get a lion trophy after hunting ‘everything that could be hunted in Europe’.
Croation Pero Jelinic, 75, was struck by a stray bullet from a fellow hunter’s rifle after he had killed one lion and was preparing his shot to kill a second.
The hunter and his friends were at Leeubosch Lodge in South Africa near Setlagole, a facility that offers “canned hunting”. Canned hunting is a controversial industry in which lions are raised in captivity and released into a fenced area. Hunters pay to track and kill them as trophies. The “sport” is often likened to shooting fish in a barrel.
Jelinic’s friends told the Croatian paper Jutarnji List that Jelinic “was a passionate hunter of big and small game, and in search of that he travelled most of the world.”
After being shot, Jelinic was airlifted to hospital but died shortly afterwards. Police have opened a culpable homicide case but his friends insist it was an “accident” not “murder” the BBC reported.
Animal rights activists have been pushing South Africa to ban canned lion hunting, which has become big draw for wealthy trophy hunters wanting to kill the endangered species.
South Africa is the world's biggest exporter of animal heads - mainly to hunters who pay thousands of dollars to hunt lions and take their heads home as trophies.
He was in the North West province and friend Slavko Pernar said he wanted to get a lion trophy after hunting ‘everything that could be hunted in Europe’.
Croation Pero Jelinic, 75, was struck by a stray bullet from a fellow hunter’s rifle after he had killed one lion and was preparing his shot to kill a second.
The hunter and his friends were at Leeubosch Lodge in South Africa near Setlagole, a facility that offers “canned hunting”. Canned hunting is a controversial industry in which lions are raised in captivity and released into a fenced area. Hunters pay to track and kill them as trophies. The “sport” is often likened to shooting fish in a barrel.
Jelinic’s friends told the Croatian paper Jutarnji List that Jelinic “was a passionate hunter of big and small game, and in search of that he travelled most of the world.”
After being shot, Jelinic was airlifted to hospital but died shortly afterwards. Police have opened a culpable homicide case but his friends insist it was an “accident” not “murder” the BBC reported.
Animal rights activists have been pushing South Africa to ban canned lion hunting, which has become big draw for wealthy trophy hunters wanting to kill the endangered species.
South Africa is the world's biggest exporter of animal heads - mainly to hunters who pay thousands of dollars to hunt lions and take their heads home as trophies.
bastard got what he deserved
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Karma is a bullet.
Croatian trophy hunters were killed while preparing to shoot lions !! hahaha, what's better than less of these two bea as with murder in your hand
I hope other trophy hunters learn from this.
Enough is enough!!!
South Africa should be sanctioned for permitting, even fostering, this horrible practice!
Best news I've heard all day. Good riddance to another scumbag sub-human.
Go the universe.. bring on the stray bullets lol
You live by the sword, you die by the sword. I agree with Anonymous above, South Africa should be held to account for allowing any kind of hunting of animals. The only shooting that should be carried out in South Africa is with a camera!! Start really promoting camera safaris as a means of income for the protection of all endangered species.
Too bad the bastard didn't suffer more and longer!!
Deserve it as well each and every hunter should end hunted by their own should be more sportive attraction
are that man dead he hawe killing fine lion ha ha god
its god that the man are dead he hawe killing fine lions
Thanks shooter...whoever you are .
Good riddance!
Too bad this doesn't happen daily...thousands of animals hunted for trophies and parts every day! Own hunter killed per year isn't enough..
Not bad, not sad.
Wheres thanos when u need him
There are no accidents in this world!! Hopefully the shooter will end up in prison.
Sad that the "stray bullet" didn't take him out before he shot the first lion.
should have been shot earlier!
This pathetic excuse for a human should have been removed from this planet a long time ago. Those poor animals that he abused should have been better protected. Hope he felt true Karma and felt the pain, he chose to inflict.
God punished this old hunter who was old enough to die, anyway...
They need to do that more often -- Morans don't even know how to shoot a gun. Too bad a lion didn't get him.
Happy to hear goodness has a way of making things right.
Too bad the lion didn't charge and finish him off after he was shot!
EXCELLENT, MAY THERE BE MANY MORE "ACCIDENTS." At least he won't get to kill any more defenseless wildlife. He has died exactly as he lived - an unlamented psychopath.
So did the other hunter mount this guys head and take it home
One idiot less.
Trophy hunting and killing for Chinese medicine must be stopped before it is too late. Governments must get tough: the tourist industry will be killed off with the animals, if these evil practices continue. ACTION NOW!
NEMESIS is always looking to rid us of the bad...