Watch moment lion attacks screaming man after he tried to take SELFIE with beast as pals desperately try to fight it off

THIS is the shocking infinitesimal a favored lion savages a antheral who was trying to drawback a selfie with it, ripping into him with its immense jaws.

The brutal onslaught happened conscionable extracurricular the beast’s cage successful Pakistan erstwhile the young antheral got excessively adjacent with a camera.

Horrifying footage shows the antheral writhing connected the level successful agony arsenic the lion clamps its colossal jaws connected his limbs and sinks its claws into his skin.

One of his pals tin beryllium seen desperately bashing the large feline implicit the caput successful an effort to prevention his friend.

But the carnal keeps tearing into its unfortunate who is squirming connected his back, screaming successful symptom and kicking his legs successful panic.

As much radical heap successful to help, the antheral tin beryllium heard pleading for his life, crying “Spare me!” and “Please halt Simba!”

After a fewer much seconds of chaos the predator yet lets go.

It took 3 men to wrestle it off, with 1 repeatedly smashing it implicit the head.

Simba prowls astir the country licking his lips arsenic the wounded antheral jumps to his feet and cowers successful the corner.

Someone turns up with a baton to support the feline astatine bay - conscionable a small excessively late.

The shaken antheral shouts that his apparel person been torn, but that is not the worst of his worries.

He was rushed to infirmary with an wounded to his arm, but the grade of his injuries is unknown.

The disturbing footage from Lahore, Pakistan, has gone viral.

The terrifying brushwood has sparked a statement astir the increasing inclination successful Pakistan of keeping exotic pets.

This onslaught successful Lahore came conscionable weeks aft a handler was mauled to death by a lion astatine a zoo successful Nigeria.

Babaji Daule, 35, had been showing guests the lion's feeding regular astatine the Presidential Library Wildlife Park erstwhile helium near the information gross open.

The zoo said the lion "inflicted superior fatal injuries to the man’s neck," and helium died connected the spot.

A police spokesperson said: "The zookeeper, apparently, feeling comfy with the animal, near the information extortion gross unfastened and proceeded to provender the animal.

"He was mauled by the carnal and died connected the spot."

The decease was witnessed by a assemblage of horrified onlookers.

The lion was aboriginal enactment down by unit astatine the parkland successful bid to "prevent further mutilation of the body".