Enraged Dancing Bear Devours Two

What
is it lately with animal acts? First Roy in Las Vegas, and now Umar in
Russia. It seems trained animals are not as well-behaved as they once
were….

MOSCOW (Dec. 4) A performing bear mauled two Moscow theatre workers
to death
and wounded another after he broke out of his cage overnight,
police
said.

The bear, named Dodon and a star attraction in the Russian capital’s
famed animal theatre Ugolok Durova, became enraged and fatally attacked
33-year-old
Umar Zakirov, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted police officials as saying.

He then set upon Zakirov’s colleague Shedov Timur, 32, who also met an
untimely end. A third theatre worker was bitten on the wrist."The bear tore two people to pieces and wounded a third," a police
spokesman said, adding that the beast was now back in its cage.

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