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Lion Kills Man At Kyiv Zoo


(RFE/RL) June 5, 2006 -- A lion today killed a man who climbed into its enclosure in a zoo in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.


The man, an ethnic Azerbaijani, reportedly shouted "God will save me, if he exists" before lowering himself with a rope into the den, which houses four lions.


(AP, Reuters, dpa)

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