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TBILISI ZOO – GEORGIA, USA

A tiger has killed a man in the centre of Georgia's capital, and wounded another person, after escaping from a zoo.

The animal, which fled its enclosure in Tbilisi Zoo after it was destroyed by heavy flooding, has been killed by police.

It was first thought that the victim had been killed by a lion, but the interior ministry later confirmed a tiger was responsible.

The tiger eluded a citywide search for escaped animals because it was in a factory.

Alexander Shavgulashvili, who saw the attack, said: "When (the victim) entered the tiger jumped from the room, it bit him on the neck.

"At first, we could not enter the room, then we broke the metal bars and the tiger escaped because it was scared of the noise."

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