Man is mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden
A man was mauled to death and eaten by his pet lion just days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden.
A resident of Najaf, southern Iraq, was horrifically attacked by the predator before it consumed most of his body on Thursday.
'Today in a garden in the city of Kufa in Najaf, a citizen was attacked by a lion in his own garden and died immediately,' Mufid Tahir, spokesperson for the Najaf Police, told local news site Rudaw.
He added that because the lion had eaten a large portion of the man's body, and because the animal refused to leave the remains, it had to be killed.
The victim, 50-year-old Aqil Fakhr al-Din, had reportedly been keeping lions and other wild animals in his garden for several years, according to Tahir.
Man mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast
A resident of Najaf, southern Iraq , was horrifically attacked by the predator before it consumed most of his body on Thursday.
