Lion Kills Man Who Climbs In Cage, Invokes God
`A lion killed a man who climbed into its enclosure at the Kiev Zoo, police said Monday.
The lion attacked the 45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down into an enclosure with four lions, said police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk.
Ukrainian TV channel NTN broadcast interviews with witnesses who said the man told them that he believed God would not allow the lions to hurt him.
According to Reuters, an official said, “The man shouted: ‘God will save me, if he exists,’ lowered himself by a rope into the enclosure, took his shoes off and went up to the lions.”‘
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`”A lioness went straight for him, knocked him down and severed his carotid artery.”‘
