Video: Lion owners arrested in Pakistan after pet escapes cage, attacks woman, her 2 children

Kids begetter alleges lion's owners stood by and watched arsenic carnal clawed astatine his family, making nary effort to restrain it.

The owners of a favored lion that escaped from a farmhouse and injured a pistillate and her 2 children person been arrested successful the eastbound Pakistani metropolis of Lahore, authorities said Sunday.

The apprehension comes aft melodramatic video footage surfaced showing the lion leaping implicit a partition earlier attacking the victims successful a residential area.

In Pakistan, a antheral was detained by wildlife authorities aft his favored lion escaped successful Lahore, injuring astatine slightest 3 radical successful a residential area. All victims are present successful unchangeable condition. pic.twitter.com/4XADzqeGlp

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The pistillate and her 5- and 7-year-old children sustained injuries to their faces and arms connected Wednesday nighttime erstwhile the lion escaped from its cage, constabulary authoritative Faisal Kamran said.

According to a constabulary report, the children's begetter told constabulary that the lion's owners stood by and watched arsenic the carnal clawed astatine his family, making nary effort to restrain it. The lion aboriginal returned to the owners' farmhouse and was relocated to a wildlife park, constabulary said.

Keeping exotic animals specified arsenic lions is considered a presumption awesome among immoderate affluent Pakistanis, contempt the ineligible requirements and precocious fees associated with ownership.