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A sheriff's deputy shot and killed the lion after it killed a worker Wednesday, March 6, at Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, Calif.
By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News
A lion mauled an employee of a big cat park Wednesday to death in California, authorities said.
Few details were immediately available about the incident at Project Survival's Cat Haven in Dunlap, about 45 miles east of Fresno.
The lion killed a female intern before it was shot and killed by a Fresno County sheriff's deputy, NBC station KSEE of Fresno reported.
The park was closed at the time.
The intern was identified by her father as 24-year-old?Dianna Hanson, of Brier, Wash., north of Seattle,?NBC affiliate KING 5 TV reported. The father,?Paul Hanson, told KING that his daughter just started the internship in January, and described it as her dream job.
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Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the site, told The Associated Press she didn't know how or when the park acquired the cat, a 4-year-old male named Couscous.
The 100-acre Cat Haven, which was founded in 1993 by former airline pilot Dale Anderson, promotes "conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitat," it says on its website.
"The Cat Haven is designed to act as 'base camp' in the belief that preserving wild cats in their native habitat is the principle justification for maintaining them in captivity," it says.
Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook. NBC News' Denise Ono contributed to this report.
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