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| Lion shot dead at Leipzig zoo after escaping from enclosure | Lion shot dead at Leipzig zoo after escaping from enclosure |
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| One of two lions that escaped from an enclosure at a German zoo has been shot dead. | One of two lions that escaped from an enclosure at a German zoo has been shot dead. |
| Leipzig zoo said no one was injured in the incident after the lions escaped early on Thursday morning. | |
| One lion was successfully corralled back into its cage and the second was initially shot with a tranquilliser. The tranquilliser failed, zoo director Jörg Junhold told the dpa news agency, giving officials no option but to kill the lion. | |
| “In this case the safety of people came first,” he said. | “In this case the safety of people came first,” he said. |
| The two male lions, Majo and Motshegetsi, were born about a year ago at Basel zoo and have been in Leipzig. since August. It was not clear which of the two lions was killed. | |