A lioness in an Iranian zoo attacked and killed a keeper and escaped with a mate earlier than the pair changed into captured again, nearby media suggested on Monday.
“The lioness, which has been withinside the zoo for numerous years, controlled to open a door of the cage, get out after which assault the 40-year-vintage shield who had simply introduced meals to the pair of tom cats,” a zoo worker advised kingdom broadcaster IRIB.
He said “the 2 animals controlled to escape” Sunday from their cage withinside the zoo withinside the town of Arak, Markazi province, approximately 2 hundred kilometres (a hundred twenty five miles) southwest of Tehran.
“Immediately after the incident, safety forces took manipulate of the zoo”, Amir Hadi, the governor of the province changed into quoted as pronouncing with the aid of using kingdom information business enterprise IRNA.
He introduced that “efforts to seize the 2 tom cats alive had been successful”.