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Bear attacks visitor in zoo

Sushanta Talukdar

Guwahati: A visitor to the Assam State Zoo here was injured after he was attacked by a Himalayan black bear when he jumped inside the enclosure on Thursday afternoon.

Earlier on December 19 last year a Zoo visitor met with a tragic end while attempting to take a close-up photograph of Royal Bengal tigers.

Zoo authorities said Azahar Ali (23), who hails from lower Assam’s Goalpara, had first gone to the elephant area and was found feeding them grass. When the zoo keepers asked him to leave, he walked to the black bear enclosure.

A zoo keeper saw the man jumping into the enclosure and raised alarm. Other staff rushed to the enclosure and pushed the bear away with lathis and pulled the man out.

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