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The fences had been left unsecured at the Muskingum County Animal Farm
in Zanesville, and the animals' cages were open, police said. They
wouldn't say what animals escaped but said the maintain had lions,
wolves, tigers, giraffes, camels and bears. Bears and wolves were amid
25 animals that were shot and annihilated, police said, and there were
multiple sightings of foreign animals by a contiguous highway.
"These are brutal animals namely you would watch on TV in Africa,"
Sheriff Matt Lutz warned by a newspaper session.
He shrieked the fled animals "adult, very huge, provocative," but said a
caretaker told authorities the preserve's 48 animals had been fed on
Monday. Police were patrolling the 40-acre plough and the surrounding
areas in cars, not on foot, he said, and were concerned that big cats
and bears could be hiding.
"This is a wrong situation," Lutz said. "It's been a situation for a
long time."
Lutz said his office started getting call calls about 5:30 afternoon
that wild animals were lax fair west of town on a road that runs below
Interstate 70.
He said four deputies with assault rifles in a pickup truck went to the
animal farm, where they base the farm's owner, Terry Thompson, die and
all the animal imprison doors open. He wouldn't say how Thompson died
but said several aggressive animals were approach his body and had to be
shot.
Thompson, who lived ashore the property, had orangutans and chimps in
cages in his home, but they were still in their cages, Lutz said.
The deputies, who saw numerous animals standing outside their cages and
others that had escaped quondam the fencing nigh the property, began
shooting them. There had been not reports of injuries among the public.
Staffers from the Columbus Zoo went to the scene, hoping to calm and
capture the beasts. The sheriff said caretakers might put food in the
animals' cages to attempt to bait them behind.
Lutz said people should reside indoors and he might inquire schools apt
close Wednesday. At fewest four zone educate districts obliterated
classes.
Lutz said his cardinal concern was defending the public.
"Any kind of cat species alternatively bear category namely what we are
concerned about," he said. "We don't know how much of a brain begin
these animals have on us."
A spokeswoman because the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which
usually knobs native wildlife, such for deer, said state Division of
Wildlife commanders were assisting the sheriff's bureau deal with the
situation in Zanesville, a metropolis of approximately 25,000 in the
east-central portion of the state.




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