Loose tiger kills visitor at San Francisco Zoo
Manuel Mollinedo (C), director of the San Francisco Zoo speaks at a press conference outside the San Francisco Zoo on December 26, 2007. Christmas day a tiger escaped its enclosure, killed one visitor and mauled two others before being cut down by a fusillade of police bullets. (UPI Photo/Terry Schmitt)
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 (UPI) -- San Francisco Zoo Executive Director Manuel Mollinedo has quit after a fatal tiger attack and staff morale crisis, the San Francisco Zoological Society says.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A San Francisco woman said three of the men attacked by a tiger at the city zoo Christmas Day had been harassing the big cats beforehand.
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