The owners of a pet lion that jumped a wall and attacked a woman and two children in the Pakistani city of Lahore have been arrested.

A pet lion caused panic in Lahore, Pakistan, after escaping from a farmhouse and attacking a woman and her two children, leading to the arrest of its owners, officials said on Sunday. A video of the incident has gone viral on social media.

In a separate incident in Turkey on the same day, a lion named Zeus escaped from the Land of Lions theme park near the resort city of Antalya. The animal attacked an agricultural worker named Suleiman Kir, who was sleeping in a pistachio field with his wife. Mr Kir fought off the lion with his bare hands, grabbing its neck until it retreated.