A lion in a Russian zoo dragged a four-year-old girl through the bars of its cage and mauled her neck and arm. Published: 7:29PM BST 30 May 2010 The girl was visiting a zoo in Tambov in southern Russia on Saturday with her grandparents when she approached the lion’s enclosure, the Interfax news agency reported. The animal dragged her in with its paw, a spokesman for the city’s police said. “The visitors and zoo workers...

Despite numerous signs and barriers, a man lifted a toddler too close to the Como Zoo’s cougar exhibit, leaving the child scratched by one of the animals. That’s what some patrons told officials they saw at the St. Paul zoo late Saturday afternoon. According to witness accounts, a man who appeared to be a father lifted a 2- to 5-year-old boy over a railing toward the cougar exhibit. One of the animals “pushed through the...