Gaza, a six-year-old boy mauled by a lion at the zoo

GAZA CITY – A Palestinian child was mauled to death by a lion at a private zoo in Gaza, according to police forces in the Hamas-ruled Strip.

Police officers said Hamada Iqtiet, 6, climbed over the fence of the zoo in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis and reached an opening in the cage before the lion mauled him.