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 lion attacked the woman and her five and seven-year-old children as panic-stricken people ran for their lives. The children’s father later told police that the lion’s owne