Dehiwala Zoo worker arrested over missing animal skulls

Dehiwala Zoo worker arrested over missing animal skulls

June 9, 2012   04:57 pm

An employee of the National Zoological Gardens in Dehiwala has been arrested over the disappearance of several animal skulls, which had been stored in a refrigerator.

It is said that the skulls of a lion, a tiger and a jaguar, which had died due to natural causes, had suddenly disappeared from the refrigerator. 

An employee of the Animal Hospital in the Dehiwala Zoo has been taken into custody over the incident, the Department of National Zoological Gardens stated.


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