A lion that left Nairobi National Park, walked alongside a highway full of rush-hour traffic and mauled a 63-year-old pedestrian has been captured.
The big cat attacked the man after becoming agitated by motorists honking their horns, Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udoto says.
The victim had been "clawed in two areas, on the front of the chest and on the back of the shoulder," said Victor Ng'ani, the director of Mater Hospital.
"He sustained lacerations, quite deep cuts in the left shoulder region and has sustained a small fracture in one of the bones in the area."
A video on social media shows the lion walking on a footpath amid a cacophony of honking horns.
Some Nairobi residents are getting concerned by the growing number of such incidents.
"We are worried for our lives," said Michael Kimani, a Nairobi resident who saw the lion.
Nairobi National Park, which covered 117 square kilometres on the outskirts of Nairobi, is home to endangered black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes and diverse birdlife. It is partly surrounded by an electric fence.
In February, six lions walked out of the park and roamed through the city, scaring residents for a few hours before the big cats returned to the reserve.
Occasionally lions clash with people on the southern side, which is not fenced.
