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Faisalabad: A wildlife officer was injured after being attacked by a pet lion at Jalvi Darbar in Faisalabad late Saturday night, marking the third such incident involving captive lions in Punjab within a week.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to reports, a pair of pet lions was being kept at the residence of the administrators of Jalvi Darbar. Upon receiving information, a wildlife department team arrived to take the animals into custody.<\/p>\n The team tranquillised both lions and entered the cage to shift them. However, one of the lions had not been fully sedated and attacked the staff while shifting.<\/p>\n Wildlife officer Ahsan Mehboob sustained head and facial injuries in the attack and was immediately shifted to a hospital, where his condition was reported to be stable.<\/p>\n Following the incident, the wildlife rescue team returned the lion to its cage. Authorities are expected to rescue the animal again from the owner\u2019s custody today.<\/p>\n This is the third reported lion attack in Punjab in recent days. Earlier, two children were seriously injured in separate incidents in Lahore.<\/p>\n In the first case, an eight-year-old girl, Rabia, was attacked by a pet lioness in the Bhekewal Pind area. In another incident, an eight-year-old boy lost his arm after being attacked by a pet lion in the Sabzazar area.<\/p>\n According to police and hospital officials, the boy, identified as Wajid, was playing near the cage of a lion kept at the Dolla Breeding Farm House when the animal suddenly attacked him, biting off his arm.<\/p>\n The injured child was initially taken to a private hospital and later shifted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where a five-member medical board has been constituted to oversee his treatment.<\/p>\n Hospital authorities confirmed that although the boy\u2019s arm had to be amputated, his condition is stable and out of danger.<\/p>\n These alarming incidents have raised serious concerns over the illegal keeping of unlicensed lions in residential areas, which officials and residents describe as a major threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n