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Elephant at Vienna Zoo kills keeper
An elephant at the Vienna Zoo pinned his longtime keeper to a wall and impaled him with his tusks on Sunday, killing the man who had cared for him since his birth.
Zookeeper Gerd Kohl, 39, was killed as he was showering the elephant, Abu, as part of the morning routine, the zoo said in a statement.
The elephant, an almost 4-year-old bull, pinned Kohl to the wall and speared him with his tusks, the statement said. Kohl, who had worked at the zoo since 1998, had cared for the elephant since his birth there.
A colleague who witnessed the killing suffered shock. The zoo's elephant house was closed Sunday as police gathered evidence.
The oldest elephant in the zoo's herd, 46-year-old Jumbo, died last weekend, the Austria Press Agency reported. In 2002, another keeper at the zoo was killed by a jaguar, which mauled the 21-year-old woman after she failed to close a door.
The zoo, founded in 1752, is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions. |
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