The owners of a pet lion that escaped from a farmhouse and injured a woman and her two children have been arrested in the eastern city of Lahore, authorities said.
The arrest on Sunday came after footage surfaced showing the lion leaping over a wall before attacking the victims in a residential area.
The woman and her children, aged five and seven, sustained injuries to their faces and arms last Wednesday night when the lion escaped from its cage, police official Faisal Kamran said.
According to a police report, the children’s father told police that the lion’s owners stood by and watched as the animal clawed at his family, making no effort to restrain it.
The lion later returned to the owners’ farmhouse and was relocated to a wildlife park, police said. — AP
