Tiger kills keeper, shot dead at zoo
August 26, 2012, Sunday
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A TIGER escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany yesterday and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo's director, police said.
The tiger managed to get from the enclosure to an adjacent storage building, where it attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner. "It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," Kirchner said. The zoo's director used a rifle to shoot the animal dead through the storage building's skylight before it could make its way to the visitor areas.
The tiger managed to get from the enclosure to an adjacent storage building, where it attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner. "It appears the gate wasn't properly shut," Kirchner said. The zoo's director used a rifle to shoot the animal dead through the storage building's skylight before it could make its way to the visitor areas.
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