Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar escape from a zoo in Germany as bear is shot

Five dangerous predators, including two lions, two tigers and a jaguar escaped from a zoo in western Germany, sparking a massive hunt.

A bear, which also broke out of the Eifel Zoo in Lunebach on Friday, was shot dead.

The animals were able to escape after flooding from an overnight storm that caused a river to burst its banks damaged their enclosures.

The animals were believed to still be in the zoo’s ground, but residents in the area, near the Luxemborg border, were advised to stay indoors.

Numerous police, zookeepers, and firefighters are combing the zoo looking for the animals before they wandered into the town. 

Eifel Zoo has almost 400 animals of 60 exotic and native species, including lions, tigers, and other big cats on its 30-acre site. 

Friday’s escape came two years after a similar case in eastern Germany, when two lions broke out of their cages at the Leipzig zoo.

One of the lions was shot dead and the other was eventually brought back into captivity.

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