Guwahati : Around 10,000 frightened visitors were evacuated from a zoo in the northeastern state of Assam yesterday when two Bengal tigers slinked out of their cage to mingle with the crowd, officials said.
The tigers opened the door to the iron enclosures and sneaked out while keepers disinfected the cage at the zoo in Guwahati, the main city in Assam.
Fortunately the two cats remained inside the zoo complex and did not try to venture out in the streets," zoo warden Narayan Mahanta said.
We immediately evacuated the visitors and tried to locate the cats before tranquilising one of them relaxing by the side of a pool inside the zoo," he added.
The second tiger was tranquillised shortly after.
None of the estimated 10,000 visitors was injured but many ran for their lives upon seeing the tigers stealthily walk by.
We were terrified to see the two big tigers majestically walking past and simply ran for life," said a college student.
I saw the tigers from a distance of about 20ft."
The zoo authorities have ordered an investigation to find out how the tigers managed to get out of the enclosure.
The zoo, the largest in India's northeast, was packed with families and students on a weekend break.
In 2007, a 50-year-old man was mauled to death by a tiger in the same zoo when he scaled a barricade to take photographs of the cats.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
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