Sunday, August 26, 2012

Tiger mauls zookeeper to death

A Siberian tiger has attacked and killed a female keeper at a zoo in Germany. It seems an unlocked gate at Cologne Zoo allowed the tiger, Altai, to get out of its pen and into a store, where it attacked the zookeeper. The zoo's director then shot the animal through a skylight in the store, before it could go further and get into public areas. "We cannot yet explain how the keeper could make such a fatal mistake (of failing to close the gate)," zoo director Theo Pagel said. "I shot and killed the animal so that we could enter... and take a look. But the employee was already dead."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-26/german-zookeeper-mauled-to-death-by-tiger/4223272

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