MELBOURNE, Australia -- 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.

Image via Shutterstock A woman's trip to the zoo ended in horrific injury. A lion attacked and mauled her arm off while at an Australian zoo on Sunday morning. The lion attack happened at the Darling Downs Zoo near Toowoomba in Queensland.

The woman suffered a 'significant' injury and is said to have lost her arm after being attacked by a lion she knew for 20 years at the Darling Downs Zoo in Queensland, Australia