This undated handout photo received 26 December 2007 courtesy of the San Francisco Zoo in San Franciso, California shows Tiatiana. A Siberian tiger escaped from its enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas day, killing one visitor and mauling two others before being shot dead by police, authorities said. The attack, lamented as "tragic" by city officials, came a year after the same female tiger, named Tatiana, grabbed a zookeeper's arm during a public feeding, tearing into her flesh before she could be freed. Police expect to take days to clarify how the 300-pound (136-kilogram) tiger escaped from its enclosure around the zoo's 5:00 pm closing time Tuesday (0100 GMT Wednesday). The zoo's tigers are kept in an "open grotto," not a cage, separated from the public area by a moat 18 feet (5.5-meters) wide and 20 feet (6.1-meters) deep and a wall taller than 20 feet, said animal care director Robert Jenkins. "We don't know how it was able to get out," Jenkins told news reporters at the zoo.
A police officer examines a tiger enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007, in San Francisco following a Christmas Day tiger attack that left one person dead and two others injured. Tatiana, a Siberian tiger, escaped from the grotto and attacked three people before police shot and killed her
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