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Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 7:45 p.m.

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 7:49 p.m.

Floods in Georgia: a white tiger shot after killing a man

While deadly floods hit the city since 13 Tbilisi Georgia, a white tiger who escaped from a zoo because of the bad weather, a man killed 42 years. The fawn was then shot.

A white tiger was shot in Georgia Tbisilli on Wednesday after killing a man 42 years. © Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

The floods in Georgia let fear the worst. And for good reason: three days after the mares of some zoo animals in Tbilisi, also invaded by the waters, a white tiger killed Wednesday a man "near Heroes' Square", announced the Ministry of Interior . "The victim was hospitalized with injuries to the neck and the carotid artery. The injuries were fatal, and doctors could not save him," testified one of the doctors in charge of the patient.

If this man of 42 years did not survive his injuries, fawn, which was hidden in a warehouse, did not have a better ending. The animal was killed by the Georgian Special Forces shortly after but another tiger, a bear and a hyena were still at large in the city, the authorities have recognized.

Mindia Janelidze, the secretary of the Council of management of crisis situations, has blamed this death to the administration of the zoo, accused of not having informed the Government that an animal had been released. On Monday, the spokesman of the institution, Mzia Charachidze, claimed that all the animals escaped or were captured were considered dead, and that research had been suspended.

Since 13, heavy floods struck the city of Tbilisi, killing at least five people. If these storms have caused lengthy power cuts and damaged many roads, houses and infrastructure, they were also responsible for the deaths of about 600 animals in the zoo, some were killed by the security forces. Among them: a white lion named Choumba found in the zoo "with a bullet in the head".

Faced with this "killing", some animal rights advocates have strongly criticized the methods of the Georgian police, whom they accuse of killing several animals presenting no danger to humans.

Author: Writing FranceSoir.fr

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