Man dies after being attacked by lion at zoo – 2024-02-18 09:17:41

A man’s recklessness would have led to his tragic death. He was a 38-year-old man, identified as Prahladwho died after being attacked by a wage while visiting a zoo in India.

According to the first reports collected by the media, the man wanted to take a photo with the lion so he jumped from a 25-foot-high fence, which divided the feline from the tourists.

Why was the man attacked by the lion?

According to reports, the man had ignored the warning of a keeper who asked him not to approach the lion and instead jumped into the enclosure, which was a non-public area of ​​the Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park, in Andhra Pradesh.

“Before the keeper had time to react, the Dongalpur lion killed the man.â€DailyMail.com wrote.

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Security agents and public authorities went to the scene minutes later but it was already too late. Now, it is being investigated whether the man was drunk when he jumped the fence.

So far it is known that the deceased was alone. The police launched a plan to locate his relatives. The lion, for its part, was moved to a cage and is being kept under observation.

This is another incident that has king of the jungle in its center, because in addition to this attack that caused an impact on the networks, this Friday a woman was arrested on the Thai tourist island of Phuket for illegally raising a lion cub in a hotel room, in addition to display it as a tourist attraction in a cafe.

The case joins others that have occurred in recent months in Thailand, where the proliferation of incidents with lions has opened a public debate about the use of these animals, whose possession as pets is permitted.

The lion is a vulnerable species and, in its African range, over the last two decades it has suffered a possibly irreversible population decline of between 30% and 50%.