Thursday, November 13, 2008

Mexico: woman fights off 500-lb lion with machete

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Chinese medianet) -- A Mexican woman said she used a machete to fight off a 500-pound lion that attacked her donkey on Monday near the resort city of Acapulco.



Celsa Aleman, 35, said she and her 7-year-old niece were riding a donk

The woman says she found the courage to fight the lion because she thought it would attack her niece. She hit the animal with a machete until the beast ran away. Aleman and her niece were unharmed.

The state government said in a statement the lion had escaped from a private zoo owned by a former local congressman.

It said the animal killed two dogs and ate a pig before it was sedated and taken back to the zoo.

(Agencies)

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