Exotic Incident #2408
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Cincinnati, OH - USA
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Incident Date:
28/05/2016
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Summary:
A 4-year-old boy fell into the enclosure of a 17-year-old gorilla named Harambe. Harambe dragged the boy through the enclosure’s moat, and a team from the zoo responded by shooting and killing the gorilla. The zoo later argued that tranquilizing him would have posed too great a risk to the boy.