BERLIN — A tiger escaped its enclosure at Cologne Zoo in western Germany on Saturday and killed a keeper before being shot dead by the zoo’s director, police said. The tiger slipped through a passage between the enclosure and an adjacent storage building, where it fatally attacked the 43-year-old keeper, said police spokesman Stefan Kirchner. “It appears the gate wasn’t properly shut,’’ Kirchner said. The zoo was evacuated and a SWAT team was called in, police said. But before it arrived the zoo’s director killed the animal by climbing onto the storage building and shooting it through a skylight using a high-caliber rifle (AP)."
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