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Karnataka Zoo Authority chairperson K. Rangaswamy connected Saturday visited Tyavarekoppa Tiger and Lion Safari Shivamogga successful the aftermath of the decease of a 27-year-old trainee veterinary serviceman who was attacked by a hippopotamus connected March 20.
The chairperson visited the enclosure wherever the incidental occurred and gathered accusation from the enforcement manager of the zoo and different officers.
Speaking to the media connected the occasion, the president said the decease of Sameeksha Reddy, a trainee veterinary officer, was an unfortunate incident. He was pained by the decease of the young officer, who loved chaotic animals and had a passionateness to dainty them.
“As of present the constabulary and the elder officials of the Forest Department are probing the incident. The authorization and the section volition instrumentality due enactment based connected the probe report. If anybody’s negligence had led to the incident, the authoritative acrophobic volition look action,” helium said.
The chairperson said that the constabulary had seized the CCTV cameras and footage. “As per the accusation I gathered, the trainee serviceman got down into the enclosure with the assistance of a ladder on with different staff. However, erstwhile the chaotic carnal got enraged, different unit subordinate succeeded successful climbing up the ladder and getting out. However, erstwhile the trainee serviceman tried to travel out, she tripped and fell backmost into the enclosure,” helium said.
Mr. Ranganath said the enquiry would find retired wherefore the veterinary serviceman visited the hippopotamus enclosure astatine that hour. “It is not wide if she had immoderate instructions from different officers to sojourn the enclosure. The officers person been instructed to taxable a study wrong 7 days. The probe volition bring retired each these details,” helium added.
