Berlin races to find the runaway animal. Significant research is underway this Thursday, July 20 in the south of the German capital. A wild animal, possibly a lioness, has escaped. To avoid endangering the local population, the authorities have delimited an area in which residents are invited not to leave their homes.
“The wild animal could be a lioness,” Berlin police said in a Twitter post. While the alert zone, given overnight, initially concerned neighborhoods to the south-west of the German capital, it was then extended to several municipalities on the outskirts of Berlin.
“The wild animal that escaped has not yet been found!” We ask you not to leave your homes, ”wrote on Twitter around 7:30 a.m. local (5:30 GMT) the police of Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin. According to the police, it was witnesses who alerted to the presence of the wild animal.
“Around midnight, we received a message that was hard to imagine. Two passers-by saw an animal chasing another,” Brandenburg police spokesman Daniel Keip told RBB radio. Interviewed later on RBB radio, he clarified that “no animal park, zoo or circus had reported a disappearance”.
“One was a boar and the other was obviously a beast, a lioness. The two men also recorded a video on their mobile phones and even experienced police officers had to confirm that it was probably a lioness,” Keip said. The search area, where helicopters are engaged, according to the media, is around the municipalities of Kleinmachnow, Teltow and Stahnsdorf.
“During the night and until the early morning, the police used two helicopters for their search but failed to locate the animal,” he added. “Drones are now being used,” writes local radio RBB.
