(USA Today) -- A tiger that escaped from the zoo in Georgia's capital after flooding destroyed the enclosures was reported Wednesday to have killed one man and wounded another.
The animal, said by eyewitnesses to be a white tiger, attacked inside a building close to Heroes Square, near the Tbilisi Zoo, the Civil.Ge news agency said.
The Interior Ministry said police killed the tiger, which was hiding at an abandoned factory when the incident happened, the Associated Press reported.
"The man in his 40s was already dead when brought to hospital," said Aftandil Imedadze, head of the Republican Hospital in Tbilisi, Civil.Ge reported.
Flooding during the weekend destroyed enclosures at the zoo, leaving animals including lions, tigers, bears and wolves roaming the city, officials said Sunday.
The zoo had said Tuesday that all eight lions and seven tigers that had been missing were killed in the flooding, along with at least two of its three jaguars, the AP reported. One jaguar remains unaccounted for.
A hippopotamus that escaped from the zoo was cornered and subdued with a tranquilizer gun Sunday. At least 19 people have died in the flooding, including four at the zoo, Civil.Ge said.
