If the bloke had been playing on a railway line while drunk, and got smashed into a million pieces by a speeding train, would they shoot the train. It's a shame the bloke got killed, but I'm with everyone here who is brassed off that the lions were shot for doing what comes naturally to them, in their own space.
It reads that they were shot to reclaim the remains. Ok I guess if I was this idiots family I would like back as much as I can to bury, but don't they have tranquilliser guns in such a place? Or do they mean they literately reclaimed the remains from within the lions.