A pet lion escaped from a Lahore farmhouse and mauled a woman and her two children. The shocking attack was caught on video, with the lion's owners seen watching without stepping in. The victims suffered serious injuries before the lion was captured and sent to a wildlife park.

Pakistani authorities have launched a crackdown on the illegal keeping of lions as pets, following an incident in Lahore where a lion escaped and injured a woman and her two children. Punjab province authorities confiscated 18 “pet” lions and eight people have been arrested for violating wildlife regulations, local media reported.

The owners of a pet lion that jumped a wall and attacked a woman and two children in the Pakistani city of Lahore have been arrested. The woman and the children, aged 5 and 7, were taken to hospital,