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Lion shot dead at german zoo after escape
The Born Free Foundation is saddened to learn that a lion has been shot dead at Leipzig Zoo today. Reports indicate that two male lions, who had recently been transferred from Basel Zoo, had actually escaped from their enclosure this morning. It was during attempts to capture them that one of the lions was shot after efforts to tranquillise him, failed.