Overview
- Police say the child was attacked in Bhekewal Pind and taken to hospital with leg and ear wounds, and her condition is now out of danger.
- The owner was transporting the lioness in an auto-rickshaw when it broke free and mauled the girl, according to a Lahore police spokesperson.
- Joint police and Punjab Wildlife teams traced the suspects to Nawankot, recovered the lioness, and made arrests within three hours of the attack.
- Investigators arrested the owner and two accomplices and registered a case over keeping dangerous animals without valid licences.
- Police report seizing 11 more illegally kept lions from a local factory and handing them to the Punjab Wildlife Department, following a 2025 sweep that recovered 13 lions.