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Visitor injured by bear in Guwahati Zoo

Guwahati: A visitor to the Assam State Zoo here got injured after he was attacked by a Himalayan black bear when he jumped inside the enclosure on Thursday afternoon.

Earlier on December 19 last year a Zoo visitor met a tragic end while attempting to click a close-up photograph of Royal Bengal tigers.

Zoo authorities said that the incident happened at 4.25 p.m. when the injured visitor Azahar Ali (23), who hails from lower Assam’s Goalpara, jumped inside the enclosure of the Himalayan black bear.

A Zoo keeper saw the man jumping into the enclosure and raised a cry following which other Zoo staff rushed to the enclosure and pushed the bear away with lathis and pulled the man out.

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