A girl survives a rare lion attack

A nine-year-old girl who was in a camp in Washington state, northwest of the United States, survived the attack of a wild American lion "Puma", an animal that is very rare to target humans, according to her uncle, who launched an online donation campaign to treat her.

Authorities told AFP in a statement that Lily Krijanevsky was "playing hide and seek in the woods near the camp" on Saturday morning with two other children when she was suddenly attacked by a puma.

The girl was taken "by helicopter to the hospital with several injuries to her upper body and face, and she underwent several surgeries and was "fully aware of what happened to her" when she woke up the day before yesterday, from a coma, according to what her uncle Alex Mantsevich wrote on the crowdfunding site. Go Fund Me".

The police indicated that the girl's health condition was stable yesterday.

Her uncle enclosed his appeal to donate to cover the costs of her treatment with pictures of her on her bed in the hospital, in which her face appeared covered with large wounds that looked like sharp scratches.

Since 1924, only 20 people have been attacked by mountain lions in this wild and mountainous state, and two of them have died, according to the Washington State Nature Conservancy.

A spokesman for the authority told a local TV station that an investigation had been opened to clarify the circumstances in which the attack took place.

Analysis of the carcass of the animal killed by a person present at the scene showed that it was not infected with rabies.

Attacks by wild pumas, also known as cougars, which are spread throughout the entire American continent, are very rarely recorded, but the authorities recommend, in the event of such an attack, that the person concerned tries as much as possible to repel the animal, and to avoid escaping or pretending to be dead.