Woman riding a donkey fights off lion with machete

A Mexican woman said she fought a 500-pound lion with a machete near the resort city of Acapulco and scared him away. Celsa Aleman said she and her 7-year-old niece were riding a donkey Monday along a road when the lion went after the animal’s legs.

The 35-year-old woman says she found the courage to fight the lion because she thought it would attack her niece. She hit the animal with a machete until the beast ran away. Aleman and her niece were unharmed.

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Tagged as: Acapulco, Animal Attacks, Animals, Celsa Aleman, Donkeys, Lions, Machetes, Mexico

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