- A tiger, believed to be owned by Germany's "Tiger Queen" Carmen Zander, was shot dead by police after escaping its enclosure and attacking a keeper.
- The incident took place on Sunday at a privately-owned facility outside Leipzig, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
- A 72-year-old worker was attacked inside the enclosure and is in a stable condition in hospital, while the tiger was killed around 300 metres away.
- Carmen Zander, a tiger tamer, has been banned from exhibiting her animals commercially since 2022, and authorities are now demanding more generous living conditions for her tigers.
- The mayor of Schkeuditz and animal rights group PETA have called for the tigers to be removed from the facility and for stricter rules regarding privately-owned exotic animals.
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