Zoo Tiger Kills Keeper in Germany, Then Shot Dead

in Animal News on August 31, 2012

A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany on Aug. 25 and killed a female keeper before being shot dead by the zoo’s director, police said. The tiger slipped through a passage between the enclosure and an adjacent storage building, where it fatally attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner.

Link: Huffington Post

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