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| US zoo baffled by tiger's escape |
| Investigators are trying to establish how a tiger escaped from its grotto at San Francisco Zoo and attacked three visitors, killing one.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-December-2007
1:11:30 AM |
| Police shot dead the 300lb (136kg) beast, named Tatiana, which mauled a keeper just before Christmas last year.
Zoo officials said they were baffled as to how the Siberian tiger got out at around closing time on Christmas Day.
The two survivors have been upgraded to stable condition at San Francisco General Hospital.
They have undergone surgery after suffering bites and claw cuts to their upper body.
Dr Rochelle Dicker at the hospital said: "Our two victims, I'm happy to report, are doing very well right now. They are in very stable condition; they're in good spirits."
'Aggressive bite marks'
Emergency services were called to the zoo at around 1715 (0115 GMT) after the tiger went on the rampage.
The zoo was evacuated and armed police officers and firefighters sent to the scene.
It was dark by the time police arrived at the zoo and barely a couple of dozen visitors remained.
Three men - one of them 19 years old and the other two in their early 20s - were attacked, suffering "pretty aggressive bite marks", zoo spokesman Steve Mannina told the Associated Press news agency.
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