AR-News: (Ecuador) Police kill escaped circus lions

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Police kill escaped circus lions
>From correspondents in Quito, Ecuador
November 29, 2003

POLICE shot and killed two lions that had escaped from a circus and roamed 
the streets of an Andean town, attacking a child, officials in Ecuador said 
today.

The lions - a male and a female - were shot yesterday because tranquiliser 
darts were not available, Chimborazo police chief Gonzalo Espinoza told 
reporters today."We had to sacrifice the animals to protect the people," he said.One 
of the lions struck a boy, lightly wounding him, before the feline couple 
settled down near some bushes in a grassy park where they were shot repeatedly by 
two officers, Espinoza said.The incident occurred in Riobamba, the capital of 
the Chimborazo region, some 160km south of Quito. 

The Associated Press


    
    

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