MELBOURNE, Australia — A girl has sustained extreme accidents to an arm when she was attacked by a lion at an Australian zoo.
The Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland state mentioned the 50-year-old girl was watching animal keepers working within the zoo’s carnivore precinct earlier than opening hours Sunday morning when she was attacked.
She was flown by helicopter from the agricultural city of Pilton to the state capital Brisbane the place she underwent surgical procedure. Her situation was steady, the zoo mentioned in an announcement Sunday. A number of information media reported the lady misplaced the injured arm.
The zoo mentioned workers had been working with authorities office security investigators to find out how the incident occurred. The state authorities confirmed an investigation was underway.
“Inexplicably, at this stage, one animal grabbed her by one arm and induced extreme injury to it,” the zoo assertion mentioned.
“At no stage did this animal depart its enclosure and there was no danger in any respect to workers members or members of the general public.”
The girl was not a workers member however a “a lot beloved member” of the zoo’s “household,” the assertion added.
She had watched keepers at work many instances over the previous 20 years and was “properly versed in security protocols round doubtlessly harmful animals,” the zoo mentioned.
Employees on the 48-hectare (119-acre) zoo declined media interviews on Monday. The zoo deliberate to reopen Tuesday for the primary time for the reason that assault.
“The animal will certainly not be put down or punished in any method,” the assertion mentioned.
5 years in the past, two lions mauled and critically injured a keeper inside their enclosure on the Shoalhaven Zoo within the state of New South Wales.