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DALLAS - Dallas police shot dead a 350-pound (160-kg) gorilla that had escaped from its enclosure and injured three people at the Dallas Zoo.
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"We were forced to put it down. We had no option," Danny Garcia, a police spokesman, told a press conference. Garcia said when the gorilla charged two police officers who had cornered the animal, they fired at the gorilla. Zoo officials said the western lowland male gorilla, named Jabari, was 13 years old and they are investigating how it escaped from its habitat. One woman and two children suffered injuries such as scratches and bites and were taken to an area hospital, police said. The incident forced the evacuation of the zoo, located just south of downtown Dallas, police said.
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