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OAKLEY, Kan. — Authorities are investigating the mauling of a man by a lion at an animal refuge in western Kansas, but no charges are expected to be filed.
The lion’s owner, Jeffrey Harsh, told authorities that the man was staying at a motel next to his refuge near Oakley and apparently made his way into a lion cage on Saturday. A Barbary lion mauled the man’s right arm.
Harsh reportedly beat the lion with a steel pipe so it would release the man. The victim, Bradley Buchanan of Oakley, has been transferred to a Denver hospital and is expected to recover.
