A video showing a young woman walking down the streets of the Sabahiya area, south of Kuwait City, with a young lion struggling in her arms went viral on on social media.
On January 1, 2022, local officials received a report of a lion walking the streets in the Sabahiya region, south of Kuwait City. The lion escaped from the young woman and her father, according to the environmental police. When the juvenile lion wandered the streets, officers assisted in its capture and returned it to the woman's custody.
Exotic animals, such as lions, are allowed to be kept as pets in Kuwait.
Video by: Dylan Burns