Three lions escaped from their enclosure at a zoo in the Tashkent area and killed a guard, according to Uzbek media reports.
Staff at the private Lion Park zoo in Parkent district were able to get two of the lions back into the cage area, but one of the lions was shot and killed.
The incident happened early Tuesday, reported the Gazeta.uz media outlet. It attributed the information to Khayot Shamsutdinov, press secretary of the prosecutor general’s office in Uzbekistan.
The media organization said the lions were able to escape because a cage door had been left open. The man who was killed was 44 years old. An investigation is underway.
