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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A zoo has fired an animal handler after a rare tiger had to be fatally shot when it escaped from its unlatched holding cell.
Enshala, a 200-pound Sumatran tiger, escaped from her night enclosure at Lowry Park Zoo on Tuesday and was trying to scale a 7-foot wall when she was killed with a shotgun by zoo president Lex Salisbury.
Before the shooting, the tiger roamed an exhibit as zoo officials moved visitors into restaurants and other secure buildings.
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