Lion Mauling at Zoo Believed to Be Suicide

NUREMBERG, Germany — A 27-year-old German man was found mauled to death by lions at a Nuremberg zoo Friday in what police called a suicide.

Workers entering the zoo in the southern German city in the morning said they saw a male lion sitting on top of the corpse while three female lions sat nearby.

Police said the man, who bled to death from his wounds, had stripped down to his undershirt outside the cage, crossed a water divide and then climbed over a fence to get into the enclosure.