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Lion captured after escaping from a circus and roaming streets of Italian town
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lion-captured-escaping-circus-rome-italy-rcna124854
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A circus lion escaped and was seen roaming around heavily populated streets for hours in a suburb of Rome on Saturday, before it was sedated and captured by authorities.
Alessandro Grando, mayor of the seaside town of Ladispoli, on the western fringe of the Italian capital, confirmed in a Facebook post just before 10:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m.
Footage shot from a police helicopter using an infrared camera showed the lion, named Kimba, strolling around a grassy area.
Mobile phone footage posted to social media, which has not been verified by NBC News, shows the animal quickly but calmly walking down a residential street, ignoring the cars and houses on either side.
"He met with people in an environment he wasn’t used to… and nothing happened, he didn’t even for a second have the instinct to attack a person,” he told the news agency.
Grando added that he hoped the incident helps bring an end to the practise of circuses keeping animals in captivity.
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