Police Shoot Dead White Tiger In Georgia

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• -Hundreds of wild animals have run amok through Tbilisi after torrential rain
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• -Victim killed when he entered warehouse where the tiger had been hiding
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• -Rushed to hospital with a slashed throat but doctors couldn't save him
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• -Death came hours after zoo claimed all predators had been accounted for 
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• -Fresh panic after reports that a hyena was also on the loose in the capital 

A white tiger which killed a man after escaping from a Georgian zoo amid apocalyptic floods has been gunned down by police, officials claimed today.

The beast was among dozens of animals including bears, wolves and a hippo that ran amok through the capital Tbilisi after torrential rain allowed them to escape their enclosures on Sunday.

The victim, named locally as Otar Tsukhishvili, was mauled to death this morning when he entered a warehouse where the animal had hiding for the last three days.

One witness said: 'It was a white tiger, a big one. It attacked a man, it seized him by the throat.'

The textile plant employee, 43, was rushed to hospital with a severed carotid artery, but doctors could not save him.