Gardeners tending to allotments were terrified to see animal roaming wild after mauling one of its keepers – but critics have long been concerned
A tiger on the loose among garden allotments. Panicked residents summoning armed police ill-equipped to deal with a dangerous predator. And, behind it all, Germany’s self-proclaimed “Tiger Queen” and her private menagerie.
In startling scenes over the weekend in the eastern town of Schkeuditz, near Leipzig airport, the mix proved fatal for a big cat named Sandokan and left a keeper seriously injured.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/tiger-escape-germany-tiger-queen-keeper-injured
Author : Deborah Cole in Berlin
Publish date : 2026-05-22 06:00:00
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