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Rare tiger released by Putin strays into China

By Washington Examiner
Published October 9, 2014 12:36pm ET
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Rare tiger released by Putin strays into China
FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2008 file photo, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin locks a collar with a satellite tracker on a tranquilized five-year-old Siberian tiger in a Russian Academy of Sciences reserve in Russia's Far East. A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Putin has strayed into China and may be in danger, state media said Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. The president was photographed in May releasing the 19-month-old cub, named Kuzya, and two other Siberian tigers in a remote part of the Amur region. (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool, File) | Alexei Druzhinin

BEIJING (AP) — A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin has strayed into China and may be in danger, Chinese media said Thursday.

Russia informed Chinese forestry officials that the tiger, tagged with a tracking device, was observed in a nature preserve in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Officials were removing possible traps and setting up more than 60 cameras in hopes of locating the tiger, it said.

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