Lions and other animals escape from a zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia after
serious flood today that has killed 8.
According to Reuters, Serious flooding in the Georgian capital has killed
eight people and helped several animals escape from their enclosures in
the zoo.
Lions, tigers, bears and other animals escaped from their zoo enclosures
and roamed Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on Sunday after flooding that
killed at least eight people, officials said.
“At least eight people died” in the flood, Interior Minister Vakhtang
Gomelauri told Georgia’s Rustavi 2 television. An unnamed official
quoted by the channel said the toll later rose to nine.
The Vere river burst its banks in central Tbilisi after hours of torrential
rain, turning streets and squares into raging streams, sweeping away cars
and flooding houses. Dozens of families were left without shelter and
thousands without water and electricity supply in the city of 1.2 million,
the mayor’s office said.
Animals including tigers, lions, jaguars, bears, and wolves escaped from
cages in the flooded Tbilisi zoo. Some of them were captured by police
while others were shot dead, according to the mayor’s office
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