 Mr Perri said: "It just happened so quickly. "They said 'Hurry up! Don't worry about your things. This is a Code One. Get out of your tent. Leave your belongings behind. You have 30 seconds to get out.' "People were running out." His family were taken out with 50 'Roar and Snore' families sleeping overnight in the Australian zoo, to a place of refuge for 90 minutes. An ambulance is seen at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia ( AAP/PA Images) Zookeepers were also said to be yelling "they're still outside still" until four came back to their enclosure. Reports claimed a tranquilliser gun was used to catch the lion that did not return. Simon Duffy, Taronga Zoo executive director said an adult lion and four cubs escaped at 6.30am. The zookeeper said: "The lions were observed in a small area adjacent to the main lion exhibit where a){kind=link}
Magnus and Dominique Perri’s family went back to sleep believing the lions were safely locked in their enclosure and the sounds of the animals were part of the experience in Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia
Families sleeping in in âRoar and Snore’ tents were given seconds to flee after lions escaped in a zoo.
Those staying in Taronga Zoo had 30 seconds to run form their luxury tents when the five big cats managed to escape their area metres from where a family was were sleeping.
Magnus and Dominique Perri and their sons Lucas and Oliver were in the attraction’s ‘Roar and Snore’ tents.
They awoke to the the sound of lion at 4am on Wednesday in Sydney, Australia.