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Lioness shot dead to keep public safe
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A LIONESS found prowling along a motorway in China after apparently jumping from a lorry was shot dead by police because they said it posed a danger to the public.
How the animal, which is protected, came to be on the highway in east China鈥檚 Anhui Province is not clear, but the illegal raising of endangered species is not unusual in China.
Officers took 鈥渕ore than 20 shots鈥 to kill the lioness after deciding that it would take 鈥渢oo long鈥 to obtain a tranquilizer gun, according to a report on anhuinews.com.
The animal was thought to have jumped out of a loosely fastened cage on the lorry and had been hit and slightly injured by another truck, the report said.
Although obviously lame, it kept walking toward a service area, and highway staff used vehicles to set up a roadblock.
鈥淢aybe because she was tired or saw there were too many cars, the lion stopped and laid down,鈥 Zhang Shuke, one of the highway workers, told the website.
A stand-off lasted half an hour before police arrived and decided to shoot the animal because of the danger it posed to the public, the report said.
No one has claimed the lioness, it added, with officials suspecting its owner feared punishment for keeping a protected animal illegally.
Aside from a small population in northwest India, lions are native only to Africa, but the illegal raising of endangered animals can be lucrative in China as some body parts are believed to have curative properties in traditional Chinese medicine.
In March, three lawmakers in the eastern city of Pingdu were found to have been raising at least 11 endangered Siberian tigers after one of the animals jumped to its death from a high-rise building.
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