Posted on 05/12/2025 12:02:47 PM PDT by Angelino97
A man was mauled to death and eaten by his pet lion just days after buying the beast to keep in his back garden.
A resident of Najaf, southern Iraq, was horrifically attacked by the predator before it consumed most of his body on Thursday.
'Today in a garden in the city of Kufa in Najaf, a citizen was attacked by a lion in his own garden and died immediately,' Mufid Tahir, spokesperson for the Najaf Police, told local news site Rudaw.
He added that because the lion had eaten a large portion of the man's body, and because the animal refused to leave the remains, it had to be killed.
The victim, 50-year-old Aqil Fakhr al-Din, had reportedly been keeping lions and other wild animals in his garden for several years, according to Tahir.
But on Thursday, the predator launched a surprise attack on its trainer before ferociously mauling him to death and devouring him.
One of the victim's neighbours reportedly intervened and shot the lion with a Kalashnikov rifle, killing it with seven bullets, as per local TV reports.
But by the time the lion was killed, it was too late for al-Din. He was immediately transferred to Al-Sadr Medical City Hospital in Najaf but did not survive due to the extent of his injuries.
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Darwin Award winner!
He kept saying “nice kitty! Stop eating me and I’ll give you some Nine Lives.”
Always overfeed your lion.
I spent a lot of time in Iraq, and I don’t recall meeting too many Iraqi that I would call smart. If the Darwin awards headed over there, they would have more material than they could ever use.
They’re the cutest things until they’re not. Kinda like Pit bulls, but worse.
It’s fun to watch those kind of videos without the sound. They kinda lose their excitement.🤣
Quick! Somebody find out if he had children?
That’s why Muslims are tea totalers. All the men would die of “hold muh beer.”
He didn’t feed him the required 40lbs of meat daily.
Why didn’t the cannibal eat his ex-wife?
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she was too bitter.
“It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
These two excerpts seem to paint different pictures:
“mauling him to death and devouring him....”
“...did not survive due to the extent of his injuries.”
I find it fascinating that being eaten can be called “injuries. I know when I eat a chicken, it’s more than just “injured”.
Maybe I just chew better than a lion.
As Rush Limbaugh used to say, “Sometimes a tiger is just a tiger”
At least he wasn’t running with scissors.
Najaf, Iraq.
Another place I’ll never, ever have to go back to or want to....
If he could afford a lion, he probably has multiple wives with a few children from each. Bunch of stupid man-children just raising more of them.
Never buy second-hand lions..................
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