Tiger claws zookeeper

TOLEDO (AP) — The Toledo Zoo says a tiger reached through a double mesh barrier and injured a zookeeper, sending the keeper to the hospital with three lacerations to the chest.

Zoo officials say the employee was doing normal rounds at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday and was in an area where he had worked before without any problems.

The zoo says one its two female tigers was somehow able to get a paw through the mesh at an odd angle. The keeper was treated and released at a local hospital.