VERSAILLES: Intruders at a French zoo shot dead a white rhino and hacked off its horns in a grisly overnight poaching incident, police and the zoo said Tuesday. The animal, a four-year-old southern white male named Vince, was attacked inside an area where at least two other rhinos are kept. When they returned on Tuesday, an animal had been killed and its two horns had been sawn off,” a police spokeswoman told AFP. Thierry Duguet, the manager of the zoo, told AFP: “This has never happened before in a zoo, either in France or in Europe. Colomba de Panouse, part of the family which set up the zoo, told AFP: “The rhinos’ warden, Elodie, is very distressed by what’s happened.

Source: Manila Times March 08, 2017 03:03 UTC