A meeting that could have had a dramatic result. In Türkiye, an agricultural worker was slightly injured by a lion escaped from a zoo. The animal, called Zeus, escaped from its enclosure in the land of the Animal Lions Park located in Manavgat, about 60 km west of Antalya, in the early hours of the morning.
According to the Birgun newspaper, he attacked an agricultural worker, Suleiman Kir, asleep with his wife in a pistachio plantation. “We were covered with blankets to protect ourselves from mosquitoes, and when the call to prayer sounded, I tried to get up, but I couldn’t,” said the Suleiman Kir newspaper.
“I saw that it was something huge”
“Suddenly, I felt that something played my left foot, and when I finally managed to get up, I saw that it was something huge, I thought it was a dog,” the farmer continued. In a video posted online, he described his fight against the lion …