Teen’s remains found in Zoo’s Lion Enclosure

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By Skylar Wolfe

Police found the body of an 18-year-old Wednesday inside a lion enclosure at a zoo in Pakistan after going missing, CNN reported.

Muhammad Bilal, allegedly a gardener at the Lahore Safari Zoo, had gone missing Monday, Chaudhry Shafqat, deputy director of the zoo, said to CNN.

During the search Wednesday morning, zoo employees found “a blood-soaked skull, some bones and pieces of torn cloth,” which relatives recognized as Bilal’s, according to BBC.

Officials are investigating how Bilal made it into the enclosure, CNN reported.

Police are investigating whether Bilal “entered the field of his own accord or if someone threw his body inside the enclosure,” Shafqat said. “The facility was totally safe.”

Bilal’s family ransacked parts of the zoo to protest what they consider “incompetence by park authorities,” police said to the New York Times.

Bilal’s family and friends also blocked a main highway, demanding the initiation of criminal proceedings against the park management, police official Najeeb Awan said to the New York Times.

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