MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A woman has sustained severe injuries to an arm when she was attacked by a lion at an Australian zoo. The Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland state said the 50-year-old woman was watching animal keepers working in the zoo’s carnivore precinct before opening hours Sunday morning when she was attacked.

A woman has sustained severe injuries to an arm when she was attacked by a lion at an Australian zoo. The Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland said the 50-year-old woman was watching animal keepers working in the zoo's carnivore precinct before opening hours Sunday morning when she was attacked.

A woman has suffered severe arm injuries after being attacked by a lion at an Australian zoo. The 50-year-old was at Queensland 's Darling Downs Zoo, south of Toowomba, on Sunday morning, when the incident occurred. She had been observing animal keepers in the carnivore precinct before opening hours.