{"id":10140,"date":"2016-03-18T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2016-03-18T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:24:29","slug":"escaped-lion-attacks-63-year-old-man-in-kenyas-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10140","title":{"rendered":"Escaped Lion Attacks 63-Year-Old Man in Kenya\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tour-pic\"<\/a>Kenya\u2019s Wildlife Service (KWS) on Friday captured a lion which attacked a 63-year-old man after straying from Nairobi\u2019s National Park.<\/p>\n

The lion named Cheru<\/a> reportedly attacked the man on a busy street along Mombasa Road. The male lion is said to have become aroused by the reaction of people heading to work.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were there, hooting their horns, taking selfies and all that and the lion got agitated,\u201d KWS spokesman Paul Udoto said.<\/p>\n

The man, who was clawed on the chest and back, is reportedly in a stable condition after he was transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe sustained lacerations, quite deep cuts in the left shoulder region and has sustained a small fracture in one of the bones in the area,\u201d said Victor Ng\u2019ani, director of Mater Hospital, where the victim is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n

The lion has since been returned to the park. KWS officials reportedly induced the lion to move into the depths of the national reserve.<\/p>\n

KWS officials are reportedly still patrolling the streets<\/a> of Nairobi in case there are other escaped lions yet to be spotted.<\/p>\n

Kenyans have been confronting stray lions for many years. Instances of stray wild lions have been on the rise<\/a> lately. Friday\u2019s incident is the third time in a month that lions have strayed from the 45-square-miles park Nairobi National Park, which also houses other endangered animals like cheetahs, rhinos and hyenas.<\/p>\n

The park, located near Nairobi\u2019s central business district, is only separated from heavily populated areas by a road.<\/p>\n

Last month, two lions strayed from the park which is reportedly home to about 30 to 40 lions.<\/p>\n

\u201cLions keeping coming out of the park to follow prey,\u201d Udoto said. \u201cThe area is fenced, and we are trying to find out how this keeps happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo: Nation Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenya\u2019s Wildlife Service (KWS) on Friday captured a lion which attacked a 63-year-old man after straying from Nairobi\u2019s National Park. The lion named Cheru reportedly attacked the man on a busy street along Mombasa Road. The male lion is said…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1,1597],"tags":[4966,2244,4709,2247],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10142,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}