Lion attacks on humans were reported in three separate countries over the past week. In Lahore, Pakistan, a surveillance camera caught the horrifying moment an escaped pet lion leapt on a woman, and then pursued two children.

In a separate incident in Turkey on the same day, a lion named Zeus escaped from the Land of Lions theme park near the resort city of Antalya. The animal attacked an agricultural worker named Suleiman Kir, who was sleeping in a pistachio field with his wife. Mr Kir fought off the lion with his bare hands, grabbing its neck until it retreated.