A rhino at an Austrian zoo kills a zookeeper and seriously injures her husband

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

Updated 8:25 AM CDT, September 12, 2023

BERLIN (AP) — A rhino at a zoo in Austria attacked a married couple working as zookeepers Tuesday, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man, authorities said.

The fatal attack happened at the Hellbrunn zoo in the western Austrian city of Salzburg.

Zoo director, Sabine Grebner, told reporters later on Tuesday that the 33-year-old woman, a German citizen from Bavaria, was assigned that day to put an insect deterrent on the rhino.

It was then that 30-year-old female rhino, Jeti, attacked the keeper though it was not clear why, Austria’s APA news agency cited Grebner as saying.




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[efhmc]

1. Sad to hear.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. no matter how comfortable someone feels around wild animals

they are still too unpredictable to turn your back.

[prodigitalson]

3. I didn't even know rhinos got married.

[Hortensis]

4. She'd worked there since 2014, so very experienced.

So was Jeti, calm and cooperative, friendly with handlers, since 2009.

Sad.