Queensland zoo to reopen two days after woman loses arm to lioness

Lions pictured on Darling Downs zoo’s website. The zoo plans to reopen Tuesday, and said it does not plan to put down the animal involved in Sunday’s attack. Photograph: Rounak Amini/AAP

A woman has lost her arm after being attacked on Sunday at a Queensland zoo by a lioness, which the zoo insists “was not hungry” or maltreated.

Queensland’s health minister, Tim Nicholls, confirmed that the woman, who is in her 50s, had “lost her arm” in the attack, which took place at about 8.32am on Sunday at the Darling Downs zoo, south of Toowoomba.