A 42-year old tourist Suryanarayan Das jumped into a lions enclosure in the Nandan Kanan Zoo near Bhubaneshwar in Odisha. He was attacked by the lion and the lioness in the enclosure and was rescued by Zoo authorities and taken to a nearby hospital. He was later shifted to SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack where he was admitted with serious injuries. Das was apparently drunk when the mishap occurred.