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Lion removed from posh Lagos apartment block

A lion has been removed from an upmarket residential apartment block – opposite a school – in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos.

Officers from the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit tranquilised and captured the animal which had been kept in a cage in the residential compound in Victoria Island. It has been taken to a zoo.

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Officials have urged the owner – believed to be an Indian national – to report to police by the end of Monday or risk arrest.

It is unclear why the two-year-old lion was kept in the complex, but local media have reported that it was guarding the property.

Officers had been monitoring the apartment block since Friday after receiving reports from other residents that a lion had been kept there.

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* This post has been amended to reflect that the lion was kept in a cage in the residential complex.

Source: bbc.com

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