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12-26-2007, 09:21 AM
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071226/D8TP5HSO0.html
Dec 26, 8:34 AM (ET)
By LOUISE CHU
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo - killing one visitor and mauling two others on Christmas - planned a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.
Authorities did not believe more people were attacked, but they wanted to inspect the area in the daylight. Zoo officials were still uncertain how long the Siberian tiger, the same one that mauled a zookeeper last year, was loose before being shot dead.
**SCHNIPP**
Fast breaking this morning, according to Fox, the three men were seen by witnesses, taunting this tiger for an extended period of time. This animal somehow found a way out of it's enclosure, and hunted these three guys down, killing the first one near the enclosure, then stalking the other two some 300 yards through the zoo, where it got them at a cafe.
The San Francisco PD is making an armed sweep of the zoo right now, looking for other possible victims, and other escaped animals. The Zoo is saying that this tiget must have vaulted a 20 foot moat, and a 15 foot high fence, to get out...
Developing....
Dec 26, 8:34 AM (ET)
By LOUISE CHU
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo - killing one visitor and mauling two others on Christmas - planned a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.
Authorities did not believe more people were attacked, but they wanted to inspect the area in the daylight. Zoo officials were still uncertain how long the Siberian tiger, the same one that mauled a zookeeper last year, was loose before being shot dead.
**SCHNIPP**
Fast breaking this morning, according to Fox, the three men were seen by witnesses, taunting this tiger for an extended period of time. This animal somehow found a way out of it's enclosure, and hunted these three guys down, killing the first one near the enclosure, then stalking the other two some 300 yards through the zoo, where it got them at a cafe.
The San Francisco PD is making an armed sweep of the zoo right now, looking for other possible victims, and other escaped animals. The Zoo is saying that this tiget must have vaulted a 20 foot moat, and a 15 foot high fence, to get out...
Developing....