Horrific moment mum launches toddler into bear's enclosure at zoo caught on camera
dailystar.co.ukbear’s enclosure at a zoo. Frightening footage has emerged of the incident which visitors looking on in horror as the predator ran towards the child.
The bear - called Zuzu - went up close and sniffed the little girl, who landed in a trench inside the cage in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, witnesses said.
Thankfully, the beast then wandered away and was enticed into an internal part of the cage so staff could rescue the child.Another sequence in the video shows six zoo staff entering the external part of the cage, with one picking up the girl in his arms.The mother is seen moving to the left after holding her child over the railings at the viewing point, then dropping the helpless girl into the bear’s den.She then appears to stay and watch.
The mother was later detained and faces a criminal case for attempted murder, say reports in Tashkent.A zoo spokeswoman said: “A young woman threw a little girl down into a brown bear’s enclosure, in front of all the visitors.
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