Escaped tiger from Georgia zoo shot after killing man

(AFP) - A tiger that escaped from Tbilisi zoo in a freak flood mauled a man to death in the Georgian capital on Wednesday before being gunned down by police, officials said.


The interior ministry had initially said the animal was a lion and deployed special forces to hunt down the beast which had been on the loose since the weekend flooding that killed at least 17 people.

But ministry spokeswoman Nino Giorgobiani later told AFP: "It was one tiger. It has been liquidated."

The attack came just two days after the country's prime minister said all the animals which were swept from the zoo in the flood -- including lions, bears and a hippo -- had been killed or captured.

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Feel bad for the man killed, but humans were the ones who caged these creatures and since the flood washed them away, clearly they didn't protect these caged animals well enough...the tiger, IMHO, didn't need to be killed.