26 September,2012 03:02 PM IST | | Agencies
Poachers broke into the cage of six-year-old female Royal Bengal tiger Oni in Itanagar zoo on Monday night and hacked it to pieces.
The incident happened when guards had gone out for dinner.
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Arunachal Pradesh government has sought the assistance of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau to probe the incident.
"We have written to (them)," P Ringu, deputy chief conservator of forest (wildlife) said.
The zoo houses many endangered species like clouded leopard, hoolock gibbon, Slow Loris, capped Langur and Royal Bengal Tiger.u00a0
