03/03/2017
Tunisian Zoo Closed After Visitors Stone Crocodile To Death
In a second incident of deadly violence against zoo animals in a week, visitors to a zoo in Tunisia?s capital stoned a crocodile to death on Tuesday, IFL Science reported. The incident happened Tuesday at Belvedere Zoo in the capital Tunis, where, for no apparent reason, visitors threw rocks and paving slabs at the defenseless animal. The zoo was temporarily closed following the incident. The municipality of Tunis decided to post the gory images of the ?brutal behavior? on its Facebook page, adding that the crocodile died directly due to the attack causing an internal hemorrhage. It is believed the attackers have not been caught. ?It?s terrible. You cannot imagine what the animals endure...
