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A husbandman successful confederate Turkey was earnestly injured aft helium was attacked by a lion that had escaped from a zoo, section media reported.
The antheral lion, named Zeus, escaped his cage astatine Land of Lions successful Manavgat, a edifice metropolis connected the Mediterranean coast, aboriginal Sunday morning, the backstage Demiroren News Agency reported. A fewer hours later, the carnal attacked the 53-year-old farmer, who was sleeping outdoors aft watering pistachio trees.
"I heard a whispering sound. When I lifted the blanket, the lion fell connected me," Suleyman Kir told the agency. "We struggled and fought. ... I grabbed his cervix and squeezed. At that moment, helium ran disconnected a little."
The Ilhas News Agency reported that constabulary officers searching for the lion heard the sound of the conflict and frightened it disconnected by shooting into the air. Ilhas besides showed footage of the lion strolling extracurricular homes earlier disappearing into scrubland.
Kir was hospitalized with wounds to his head, enarthrosis and legs. Police teams and drones recovered the lion successful a adjacent wooded area. It was killed.
Land of Lions' website boasts that the parkland holds "the world's largest lion family" of much than 30 animals. It besides contains tigers, bears and wolves.
It wasn't wide however the lion escaped but an probe has been launched. The zoo did not remark connected Sunday
This is the latest lion onslaught successful caller days.
On Thursday, an escaped favored lion chased a pistillate and 2 children down a engaged thoroughfare successful Pakistan.
CCTV footage released by the constabulary showed the lion jumping the obstruction astir its location and pursuing a pistillate connected Thursday night. The lion jumped connected her back, knocking her to the ground, the footage showed. All 3 were taken to a infirmary but were not successful a captious condition.
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