Post by George61 on Jun 18, 2005 5:56:40 GMT 7
www.chinaview.cn 2005-06-13 19:13:10
JINAN, June 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Three tigers were confirmed to have sneaked into the famous tourist sight Mount Tai in east China, prompting local government to rope off two tourist attractions and send hundreds of armed police for the hunt.
Officials with the administration of Mount Tai tourist sight on Monday said one adult tiger and two baby tigers were looming in the mountainous Dong Lu area and around Tianzhu peak. They had temporarily shut down the two sites and plastered alert notice on walls of the villages around the sites, where more than one thousand people resided.
Officials on Mount Tai declined to give more details about the tiger or the search. But source close to the administration said light sniper-armed police and paramilitary have been sent to the mountains.
Source said two wild life experts from the Jinan safari zoo came to Mount Tai on Sunday afternoon with their special anesthetic rifles.
No one was sure where the tigers came from. Some villagers said the predators might have escaped from a tiger zoo near Mount Tai, while others said they might have come all the way from Jinan safari zoo.
But the source said the tigers must be extremely hungry as there were rarely any wild life animals on the Mount Tai. They might attack any human being at the sight.
Despite closed-down of the two tourist sites, Mount Tai administration stuff did not shut down the major tourist attraction nearly 8 or 9 km away from the shut-down areas. No alert notice was found here.
Streams of travelers still go sightseeing up and down the major tourist site. Many of them heard about the tiger hunt but few of them seemed to let it disturb their sightseeing.
JINAN, June 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Three tigers were confirmed to have sneaked into the famous tourist sight Mount Tai in east China, prompting local government to rope off two tourist attractions and send hundreds of armed police for the hunt.
Officials with the administration of Mount Tai tourist sight on Monday said one adult tiger and two baby tigers were looming in the mountainous Dong Lu area and around Tianzhu peak. They had temporarily shut down the two sites and plastered alert notice on walls of the villages around the sites, where more than one thousand people resided.
Officials on Mount Tai declined to give more details about the tiger or the search. But source close to the administration said light sniper-armed police and paramilitary have been sent to the mountains.
Source said two wild life experts from the Jinan safari zoo came to Mount Tai on Sunday afternoon with their special anesthetic rifles.
No one was sure where the tigers came from. Some villagers said the predators might have escaped from a tiger zoo near Mount Tai, while others said they might have come all the way from Jinan safari zoo.
But the source said the tigers must be extremely hungry as there were rarely any wild life animals on the Mount Tai. They might attack any human being at the sight.
Despite closed-down of the two tourist sites, Mount Tai administration stuff did not shut down the major tourist attraction nearly 8 or 9 km away from the shut-down areas. No alert notice was found here.
Streams of travelers still go sightseeing up and down the major tourist site. Many of them heard about the tiger hunt but few of them seemed to let it disturb their sightseeing.
