(2nd LD) Puma caught after fleeing zoo in Daejeon
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19:30 September 18, 2018
(ATTN: UPDATES with capture; CHANGES headline, photo)
DAEJEON, Sept. 18 (Yonhap) -- A puma was caught Tuesday hours after escaping from an enclosure at a South Korean zoo.
Zookeepers at Daejeon O-World in the city some 160 kilometers south of Seoul discovered earlier in the day that the eight-year-old female puma had disappeared.
They immediately reported the situation to authorities.
She was found at around 7 p.m., and a tranquilizer dart was used to capture her, they added.
This photo shows the cage at the Daejeon O-World zoo from which a puma escaped on Sept. 18, 2018. (Yonhap)
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