Yahoo – AFP,
May 14, 2016
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| Vets equipped with tranquiliser guns and a police helicopter combed the area around the village of Oldeberkoop in the northern Netherlands where the animal shelter is located (AFP Photo/Karen Bleier) |
The Hague
(AFP) - Two Bengal tigers that escaped Saturday from a big cat shelter in the
Netherlands have been recaptured after about four hours on the loose, Dutch
authorities said.
The two
tigers named Radja and Delhi were found roaming the wooded area near the refuge
from which they escaped by crawling under a fence, ANP news agency reported,
citing local police.
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A police
officer stands guard in
Nijeberkoop, northern Netherlands on May 14, 2016 during a search to find two tigers that escaped from a big cat shelter (AFP Photo/Jacob Van Essen) |
After
several attempts to capture them, the animals were anaesthetised and confirmed
to be "in a very deep sleep," Jan Graafstra, a police officer
involved in the operation, wrote on Twitter.
Several men
then carried the two big cats, each weighing around 150 kilos (330 pounds),
back to their cages in the refuge in big cloth sacks with carrying handles,
Dutch public television NOS reported.
"There
was never any danger for local residents," who had been warned about the
escaped tigers, local mayor Harry Oosterman told ANP.
The Felida
big cat rescue centre takes in animals in need of protection from possible
abuse or neglect as those of advanced years.
Radja and
Delhi originally came from a private German zoo, whose cash-strapped owner
could no longer afford to feed them.
The goal is
to eventually transfer them to a sanctuary in South Africa.
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The lions,
with names such as Zeus and Shakira, were freed after the use of
wild
animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru in 2011 and Colombia in 2013
(AFP Photo/Cris Bouroncle) |
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