Georgia Mourns Flood Victims as Police Hunt Escaped Zoo Animals
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Georgia declared a day of mourning after at least 13 people died in severe floods that swept through the capital, Tbilisi, as the hunt continued for zoo animals that escaped during the disaster.
Police are “working around the clock to bring the situation back to normal” after lions, tigers, bears and wolves broke loose when gates at the zoo burst open in Sunday’s floods, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said in a statement on Monday. The disaster caused “irreparable damage to countless homes,” he said.