German zookeepers have shot dead one of two lions that escaped from an enclosure after a tranquiliser failed to sedate it, the zoo’s director said. “It’s a very, very sad outcome but we had no choice,” said the head of the zoo in the eastern city of Leipzig, Jörg Junhold. However the staff then determined they had lost control of the situation and a zookeeper shot and killed Motshegetsi. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Motshegetsi (left) and Majo, originally from Namibia, arrived in Leipzig last month from Basel zoo. Last March, one tiger was killed by another at Leipzig zoo when a partition separating the animals was removed by accident.

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2016 09:41 UTC