Lion breaks spinal cord of sweeper in Junagadh’s Sakkarbag zoo

Junagadh, 5 March 2012

A sweeper Irfan Theba(26) of Junagadhs’ Sakkarbag zoo was attacked today morning by a five-year-old fully grown lion inside the cage.

Irfan has received serious injury in spinal cord and he has been taken to Rajkot’s Wockhardt hospital for further treatment. His situation is critical.

Today morning, in the course of routine duty, when Irfan entered inside the cage, the lion was already pushed to a sub-enclosure, however the gate of sub-enclosure was not properly closed, due to which the lion stepped outside in the main floor of the cage and attacked a sweeper who was about to start cleaning work there.

Irfan was first taken to Junagadh’s Trimurti hospital, but due to seriousness of injury, he was refereed to Rajkot.