POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) - A five-year-old tiger escaped from a circus, spreading fear and forcing Germans to stay indoors for more than two hours on Wednesday until authorities captured the animal.The Siberian tiger named Dawa, a bright orange animal with black and white stripes, was tracked down in a park on the outskirts of Potsdam and shot by veterinarians with a tranquilizer gun.
The tranquilized tiger was then taken back to her cage. No people were hurt.
"It's a wild animal and obviously dangerous," a police spokeswoman said after the tiger was seen wandering on a road near the central train station in the eastern German town.
About 20 police hunted for the animal along with the director of the traveling circus Probst and the veterinarians. They sealed off the park. It was not known how the tiger escaped from her cage.
Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, is where World War II allies held a conference in 1945 that sealed the division of Germany.
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