Wild Animals On The Prowl As Flood Hits Tiblizi

Last night six lions, six tigers, seven bears, one hippo and 13 wolves escaped the zoo in Tiblizi, capital of Georgia, after what the Mirror and Reuters called “freak flood” hit the city. Thus, residents have been warned to keep indoors by the zoo authorities.

Worse still, the flood killed seven people including three zookeepers. One of them was Guliko Chitadze, a zookeeper who, according to reports in Georgia, lost his arm in a separate attack by a lion last month.
Mirror reported and published Reuters photos of the animals like a hippo “trotting down a dual carriage way and then stopping to eat from a tree in the city centre” and a bear hiding on an air conditioning unit.