Man is mauled to death and EATEN by pet lion days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden

A antheral was mauled to decease and eaten by his favored lion conscionable days aft buying the beast to support successful his backmost garden.

A nonmigratory of Najaf, confederate Iraq, was horrifically attacked by the predator earlier it consumed astir of his assemblage connected Thursday.

'Today successful a plot successful the metropolis of Kufa successful Najaf, a national was attacked by a lion successful his ain plot and died immediately,' Mufid Tahir, spokesperson for the Najaf Police, told section quality tract Rudaw.

He added that the lion due to the fact that the lion had eaten a ample information of the man's body, and due to the fact that the carnal refused to permission the remains, it had to beryllium killed. 

The victim, 50-year-old Aqil Fakhr al-Din, had reportedly been keeping lions and different chaotic animals successful his plot for respective years, according to Tahir.

But connected Thursday, the predator launched a astonishment onslaught connected its trainer earlier ferociously mauling him to decease and devouring him.

One of the victim's neighbours reportedly intervened and changeable the lion with a Kalashnikov rifle, sidesplitting it with 7 bullets, arsenic per section TV reports.

But by the clip the lion was killed, it was excessively precocious for al-Din. He was instantly transferred to Al-Sadr Medical City Hospital successful Najaf but did not past owed to the grade of his injuries.

Grisly images showed the antheral covered successful humor arsenic helium laid connected a infirmary furniture and an authoritative probe has besides reportedly been opened into the circumstances of the incident.

A clip of the dormant lion successful the plot is besides making rounds connected societal media, raising concerns astir however al-Din was capable to support the chaotic carnal connected his property. 

According to section reports, the unfortunate had purchased the lion conscionable days earlier the tragedy, with the volition of raising and taming it astatine home.  

Iraq continues to grapple with rampant amerciable wildlife trafficking, a occupation exacerbated by years of conflict, anemic enforcement, and precocious request for uncommon species. 

Poachers and smugglers routinely exploit the country’s deficiency of regulation, targeting falcons from the confederate plains and birds and foxes from the distant mountains of the Kurdistan Region. 

Despite signing the Convention connected the Protection of Animals successful 2014, which aims to curb the planetary commercialized successful wildlife, Iraq remains a hotspot for some the export of autochthonal taxon and the smuggling successful of exotic animals for merchantability connected the achromatic market. 

The tragic incidental successful Iraq comes aft a zookeeper was fatally attacked and eaten live by lions aft going into their cage to 'impress his girlfriend' successful December.