New Delhi: A man jumped inside the enclosure of a lion in the Delhi zoo on Thursday, but escaped unhurt as the alert zoo staff acted quickly and tranquillised the animal.
The incident happened at beat number 17 at around 12.30 pm. The situation is under control now, zoo sources said.
#WATCH – A man jumped inside Lion’s enclosure at National Zoological Park in Delhi but came out completely unharmed. pic.twitter.com/1p1Ijmvtvm? News18 (@CNNnews18) October 17, 2019
Khan did not sustain any injury and seems to be mentally disturbed, according to police. He currently resides in Seelampur in northeast Delhi and is being questioned by the police. A zoo official said the man went near the animal, sat down and started teasing it. The feline, however, did not attack him.
The onlookers kept shouting, asking him to come back, but he did not pay any heed, the official said. When the zoo staff entered the enclosure to save the man, he started running towards the lion, another official said. In September 2014, a white tiger had mauled a man to death after he had jumped inside the animal's enclosure.
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