Officers at a Swedish zoo managed to get three chimpanzees who had damaged out of their enclosure again right into a safe house, however 4 others have been shot lifeless.

The Furuvik zoo mentioned in a press release Saturday that the surviving animals at the moment are being sorted and one who’s injured is receiving veterinary care.

The apes had escaped on Wednesday, with a few of them making their approach out of the monkey home the place they lived. Officers have been pressured to shoot them due to the hazard to the general public. Two have been shot within the zoo grounds and one was confirmed lifeless contained in the monkey home. When keepers have been lastly capable of get inside on Saturday, they discovered the physique of a fourth chimp.

“What has occurred is a superb tragedy and an enormous failure of us,” the zoo mentioned in a press release on Fb.

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“All of us really feel an enormous disappointment about what has occurred and mourn our beloved chimps Linda, Torsten, Santino and Manda. … We’re very eager to resolve how this might have occurred and the investigation might present the place now we have (failed) or if we may have acted otherwise.”

The zoo recognized the surviving chimps as Selma, Maria-Magdalena and Tjobbe, and mentioned Selma’s accidents have been being handled.

The Furuvik zoo is situated close to Gavle, 165 kilometers (100 miles) north of Stockholm. It’s a part of an amusement park. In line with the park’s web site, it is usually the one primate analysis station within the Nordic international locations.

It isn’t the primary time in current months that animals have escaped from Swedish zoos. In October, a venomous king cobra escaped from its terrarium at a zoo in Sweden however returned by itself after per week.