Circus Lion Pounces On Ringmaster In Terrifying Attack, He Continues Performing To Pacify Crowd
A lion suddenly attacked a circus trainer in front of a large audience of children and parents in Ukraine. Hamada Kouta the 32-year-old was pinned down by the big cat in the middle of the act. His arm leg and back were mauled and clawed before the lion finally walked away.
In a terrifying incident, a lion suddenly attacked a circus trainer in front of a large audience of children and parents in Ukraine circus.
Hamada Kouta, the 32-year-old was literally pinned down by the big cat in the middle of the act.
According to reports, his arm, leg and back were mauled and clawed before the lion finally walked away. According to Sputnik News, the incident took place during the a circus show called ¡°Treasures of Egypt¡±.
The circus trainer told local reports that he tried to resume the performance to help calm down the children who were screaming.
A mother watching with her two children told the Daily Mail: ¡°My heart stopped when the lion pounced at the trainer.¡±
¡°I calmly called them back, because there were children in the audience,¡± he said. ¡°The most important thing for me is to see children in the audience.¡±
He put up a video explaining the reason behind the incident saying that the big cats were just in a bad mood.
¡°They can be moody, like people. For example, you can wake up in the morning in the bad mood. That¡¯s it, the whole day will be like this. They are just the same."
"They did not have time to adapt, because we arrived and immediately began to perform,¡± he told local TV station Louga 24.
