Germans afraid of big bad wolf

Gelsenkirchen - Residents of a German city were warned not to let their children play alone outdoors after a wolf escaped from a local zoo, police said.

The beast was at large Sunday -- despite an intense search by police, zookeepers, hunters and a helicopter -- after fleeing the zoo in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday night, a police spokesman said.

The wolf escaped after jumping over an electric fence during a fight between members of its pack in the wolf enclosure in the city in western Germany's industrialised Ruhr region.

"It's a very ferocious animal that won't be easy to catch," the spokesman said.

Although the wolf should pose little danger to people unless cornered or harassed, police on Sunday advised people to ensure their children did not play alone outdoors and to keep their dogs leashed while out walking. -- Agence France Presse

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