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Video: Zookeepers Killed a Critically Endangered Gorilla After He Grabbed a Four-Year Old at the Zoo

Video: Zookeepers Killed a Critically Endangered Gorilla After He Grabbed a Four-Year Old at the Zoo

by The Daily Eye Team May 31 2016, 9:30 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

A western lowland male gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo was killed by keepers on Saturday after he dragged around a four-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure, a zoo official said.The boy crawled through a barrier and fell about 12 feet into a moat surrounding the habitat, where Harambe, a 400-pound western lowland gorilla, grabbed him, Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard told reporters.

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