Legislators fined over tiger's death fall

Three legislators have each been fined 3,000 yuan ($482) for illegally keeping eight tigers, one of which died after falling from an 11-story building when it was disturbed by firecrackers during the Spring Festival holiday.

The three, Cui Jingguang, Yang Wenzheng and Zhang Fucai, are deputies to the Qingdao Municipal People's Congress in Shandong province. The tiger fell to its death in downtown Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao.

Qingdao forestry officials and the police launched an inquiry into the illegal raising of tigers after the incident, and they discovered that two of the animals were kept at a tourism site run by Cui.