Zoo Investigating Drug Deaths of 2 Lionesses
Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia —
Two of four lionesses that went into comas after being given overdoses of barbiturates died at a zoo, and investigators are trying to determine who drugged the animals, officials said Saturday.
The overdoses occurred at the Taiping Zoo, 150 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, last Sunday.
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