A lion that escaped from the house attacked a woman with small children

An escaped pet lion chased a woman and two children, attacking and injuring them in Pakistan's second-largest city, Lahore, police said. CCTV footage showed the lion jumping over a wall onto the street and chasing the woman. The lion's owners have been arrested.

The owners of a pet lion that escaped from a farm and injured a woman and her two children in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have been arrested, authorities said on Sunday.

The arrest came after dramatic footage emerged of a lion leaping over a wall and attacking victims in a residential area, The Guardian reports.

Faisal Kamran, a police spokesman, said the woman and her five- and seven-year-old children suffered injuries to their faces and arms on Wednesday evening when the lion escaped from its cage.

According to the police report, the children's father said the lion's owners stood by and watched as the animal mauled his family, making no effort to restrain the animal. The lion later returned to the owners' farm and was transferred to a wildlife park, police said.

Some wealthy Pakistanis see keeping exotic animals such as lions as a status symbol, despite the legal requirements and high fees associated with owning them, The Guardian reports.

A lion that escaped from a theme park near the Turkish resort of Antalya was shot dead on Sunday after attacking a man, the local governor and media said.

The lion, named Zeus, escaped from his enclosure at the Lion Land animal amusement park in Manavgat, about 65 km east of Antalya, in the early hours of the morning, the governor said.

According to the Birgun newspaper, the lion attacked a farm worker named Suleyman Cyr, who was sleeping in a pistachio field with his wife. Cyr fought the lion before it ran away. The man was injured, but not seriously, and was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"We covered ourselves with blankets to protect ourselves from the mosquitoes and when the call to prayer came I tried to stand up but I couldn't," he told the newspaper. "Suddenly I felt something touch my left leg and when I finally managed to stand up I saw it was something huge - I thought it was a dog."

In a video posted online, he described the moments of the struggle with the lion. "We called for help, but there was no one around. When the lion was biting my calf and neck, I grabbed him by the neck and started squeezing, and he retreated. At that moment, the security forces arrived," he said. "If I had not been so strong, I would not be here now."

The governor of Antalya said the lion had been tracked down and shot. "It was not possible to catch the escaped lion alive as it was dangerous to people and the environment, so it was shot," he said.

He said an investigation had been launched into the incident. According to Turkish media, there are about 30 big cats living in the "Land of Lions."