A seven-year-old
Moroccan girl has died after a zoo elephant threw a rock at her.
Managers at the zoo in the Moroccan
capital of Rabat confirmed the tragic details in a press statement.
The girl died a few hours after being
transferred to hospital. Video shot by a zoo visitor shows a number of people
huddled around the girl and holding her head, which was flowing with blood,
whilst waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
The park management said the girl had
been hit after the female elephant threw the rock out of its enclosure.
The
girl had been in the visitors' area with her family, looking at the elephant
and trying to take a picture.
The Rabat zoo does not use a metal
fence to separate the animals from the visitors but has a huge ditch and wooden
fence. Zoo managers sent their condolences to the girl's family and said in the
statement that the zoo
meets the required international safety standards.
meets the required international safety standards.
This is the first incident of its
kind since the zoo opened at the beginning of 2012. There are no previous
records of animals at the zoo causing death or serious injury to visitors.
Rabat zoo is one of the largest in
Morocco, home to many animals including some endangered species.
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