Escaped Tiger From Flooded Georgia Zoo Kills Man

A Georgia interior ministry spokeswoman has confirmed that a tiger, which escaped from a zoo in the Georgian capital during the freak floods at the weekend killed a man in the city centre.The man from Tbilisi was said to have met with a horrific death on Wednesday, June 17, after a tiger that escaped from the city’s zoo mauled him to death amid massive flooding .

She said that police special forces were deployed and were hunting down the animal.

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The Georgian media has said that the tiger had been hiding in a warehouse and escaped the citywide police search for the escaped animals, many of which were shot dead.

It must be recalled that floods hit Tbilisi on Sunday, killing about 17 people and pillaging  the city’s central districts including the zoo, where hundreds of animals including wolves, tigers, hippos and lions escaped.

Report says that over half of the animals about 300 species have either drowned in the muddy waters or were killed by police.

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Due to the flood, numerous wild animals are roaming free on the streets of the capital.

The disaster has been described as “apocalyptic,” and as a result residents have been warned to stay inside as the city remains in lock down.

The beasts running wild include lions, bears, wolves, tigers, hippo, crocodiles and hyenas, among others.

According to Israel national news,  one security guard was chased through a park at Tbilisi State University by a hyena on Sunday morning.

He was able to escape the ravenous animal and lock himself in a shed, from where he called police who came and shot the hyena dead.

The Zookeepers say that over half of about  600 animals which had been in the facility died in a “hellish whirlpool” or else were put down by the police.

Critics have decried the killing, saying that the animals did not need to be killed in some of the cases.

In one incident, they claimed that an enormous and potentially lethal hippopotamus was shot with a stun dart and captured in a central square of the city.

Meanwhile, the Interfax news agency reports that amid the mayhem, Georgian orthodox church head patriarch Ilia II has blamed the former communist regime for bringing the disaster.

“When communists came to us in this country, they ordered that all crosses and bells of the churches be melted down and the money used to build the zoo. The sin will not go without punishment,”  he noted.

The Georgian disaster seem to have stirred a lot of concern and controversy, as many have started pointing accusing fingers regarding the flood.

Some have pointed to the recent construction of a controversial road, which cuts through the zoo and neighboring Mtziuri park, saying the road caused the Vere to burst its banks.

That possibility has been brushed off by an engineer-geologist cited from the ministry of environmental protection by BBC.

The engineer, Giorgi Gaprindashvili said: “In the 1960s the same area got flooded. Back then of course there was no highway there.”

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