In her own words, the owner of the tiger that escaped near Leipzig has no explanation as to how the escape could have happened. "I didn't do anything wrong. My helpers are 100 percent instructed. I don't understand what happened here", the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" newspaper quoted tamer Carmen Zander as saying. She herself was not present at the scene of the incident.
On Sunday afternoon, an adult male tiger escaped from the enclosure in an industrial estate in Dölzig near the Autobahn 9. A 72-year-old helper of the tamer was seriously injured. The police shot the tiger in the area of an allotment garden. According to the authorities, there were a total of nine tigers living in the enclosure before the escape.
