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AUSTRIA: March 7, 2002


VIENNA - A jaguar has mauled and killed a zoo keeper at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo before attacking and injuring the zoo's director.


The keeper was killed as she prepared the animal's feed, a spokeswoman for the animal park told Reuters.

The popular zoo, located in the grounds of the Schoenbrunn Palace on Vienna's outskirts, was founded in 1752.


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