A tiger that has escaped captivity after attacking a person has been shot dead by police near\u00a0the eastern city of Leipzig, police said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The animal belongs\u00a0to the well-known trainer Carmen Zander, who possesses a group of big cats held in an industrial estate, according to the Bild newspaper, which cited\u00a0the daily Leipziger Volksstimme in its report.<\/p>\n
Police said the injured person was male and that he was only slightly hurt, though Bild said\u00a0he had nonetheless been hospitalized.<\/p>\n
Later media reports said the injured was a 73-year-old man who cared for the animal and that he had received serious wounds.<\/p>\n
According to a spokeswoman, no other tigers had escaped.<\/p>\n
They said the tiger had escaped from a private facility in Schkeuditz, just west of Leipzig, before being shot dead in nearby gardens.<\/p>\n
Controversial tiger tamer<\/p>\n
Zander, who has been dubbed the “Tiger Queen,” has already faced legal issues\u00a0because of her treatment of the animals in her care, the Zeit weekly said, citing media reports.<\/p>\n
Among other things, she is alleged to have put on a tiger show without proper approval, leading to an investigation by Leipzig state prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tiger that has escaped captivity after attacking a person has been shot dead by police near\u00a0the eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-453581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}