A man has been mauled to death by a 9-year-old lion he kept in his backyard at his home in the eastern Czech Republic.
Michal Prasek, 34, was found dead by his father in the lion’s cage on Feb. 5, which had been locked from the inside. The father alerted authorities after seeing his son’s motionless body on security camera. Along with a lion, Prasek also kept a lioness in the cage for breeding, reported local media Novinsky.cz.