India, April 4 -- For wildlife enthusiasts, safaris and national parks are the ideal places to witness exotic animals in their natural habitat. However, encountering a wild beast inside one's own home is a nightmare no one wishes to experience. This fear turned into reality for a family in Gujarat's Amreli district when they found a lion perched on their kitchen wall in the dead of night.

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According to a report by TOI, the massive lion had scaled a 12 to 13-foot-high kitchen wall of a residence belonging to Hamirbhai Lakhanotra. The family initially dismissed the faint roars as those of a house cat, but their assumptions were shattered when the...