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The
lioness, named Sasoonee, was reported to be on the loose at
around 7:30 a.m. (2230 GMT Sunday) in the southeastern county of
Goryeong. It was believed to have escaped through a back door of
the farm that was left open, the Yonhap news agency said, citing
the farm owner.
The animal was shot dead after being discovered by authorities
in bushes near the farm about an hour later, a fire official
told Reuters.
The official said she had no information on whether the lioness
posed a threat, or whether authorities had tried to use a
tranquilizer dart to catch it alive.
Yonhap reported that the farm offered tours to the public to see
its animals.
Photographs released by fire authorities showed the lioness
hiding in bushes and its body after it was shot.
Authorities issued a safety alert, advising the public to call
an emergency hotline if they spotted the lion, and dozens of
campers on a nearby mountain briefly took refuge in a town as
police searched, Yonhap reported.
The lion was the latest animal to escape from captivity in South
Korea in recent months.
A zebra got out of a zoo in the capital, Seoul, before being
caught in March, and one of two chimpanzees that ran away from a
zoo in the southeastern city of Daegu died after being shot with
a tranquilizer dart last week.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; editing by Robert Birsel)
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