Tiger kills gardener at Vietnam zoo
September 11th, 2009 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANSHanoi, Sep 11 (DPA) A tiger leapt out of its enclosure and killed a gardener at a private zoo in southern Vietnam, a police officer said Friday.
The tiger jumped over a two-metre-high fence and attacked three gardeners late Thursday at the Dai Nam Zoo in Binh Duong province, local police chief Thang Cuu Long said.
Long said the gardeners and the tiger had all been inside a larger fence that surrounds the inner enclosure and that the zoo’s tourist area had not been threatened.
“Actually, the fences are very safe with electricity around them,” Long said. He said he knew of no plans to improve the fences or to euthanise the tiger.
After a tiger escaped and killed a tourist at the San Francisco Zoo in 2007, a certification board concluded that the six-metre wall surrounding that tiger’s enclosure was more than a metre too short.
Officials at the Dai Nam Zoo believe the tiger might have been upset by a crane the workers were using to plant trees.
According to the news website VNMedia, gardener Nguyen Cong Danh, 47, was killed while co-worker Nguyen Thanh Giau, 21, was injured. Giau and one other worker escaped through a water culvert, it said.
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