Saturday, 20. September 2003
Topic: - on September 20, 2003 at 10:32:39 PM CEST
Drunk U.S. soldier shoots rare tiger in Baghdad zoo
A U.S. soldier shot and killed an endangered tiger at the Baghdad zoo after it bit another soldier who had drunkenly reached through the bars of its cage to feed it, a security guard said Saturday.
The soldiers had been drinking beer when they entered the zoo Thursday night after it closed, said the guard, Zuhair Abdul-Majeed. After the man was bit, the other American shot the tiger three times in the head and killed it, he said.
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