The head of the Kano Zoological Garden, Sai’du Gwazor has announced that a team of experts has captured the lion that escaped from the zoo.

 

 

He said the lion was found on the zoo premises in a cage belonging to goats, adding that it had killed and eaten all the goats in the cage.

 

 

GWARZO said the rangers had succeeded in locking up the cage before the lion was shot with an injection which made him less harmful.

 

 

There was panic on Saturday night around Zoo road in Kano metropolis when the lion escaped from its cage at the zoological garden.

 

 

The lion had escaped when the rangers were trying to put it back in its cage after they returned from a national agricultural show which took place in Nasarawa State.

 

 

The incident had forced many residents of the area to remain indoors while motorists had deserted the ever-busy Zoo road since the incident happened on Saturday night.