Lion leaves Kenya park and mauls pedestrian
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A lion left Nairobi National Park, walked alongside a highway full of rush-hour traffic and mauled a 63-year-old pedestrian yesterday before being captured, officials said.
The man had been “clawed in two areas, on the front of the chest and on the back of the shoulder. He sustained lacerations, quite deep cuts in the left shoulder region and has sustained a small fracture in one of the bones in the area,” said Victor Ng’ani, the director of Mater Hospital.
The lion went by The Star printing press. Wellington Lwenya, a plumber there, said it was terrifying to come face-to-face with the lion, the newspaper said.
The lion attacked after becoming agitated by motorists honking their horns, said Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udoto.
A video circulating on social media show the lion walking on a sidewalk amid a cacophony of honking horns.
Some Nairobi residents are getting concerned by the growing number of such incidents.
“We are worried for our lives,” said Michael Kimani, who saw the lion.
Nairobi National Park, which covered 117 square kilometers on the outskirts of Nairobi, is home to endangered black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and diverse birdlife. It is partly surrounded by an electric fence.
In February, six lions walked out of the park and roamed through the city, scaring residents for a few hours before the big cats returned to the reserve.
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