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Zoo evacuated after chimps escape

Updated on 06 July 2009

Source PA News

Chester Zoo was evacuated after 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure.

The animals found their way into a keeper area where their food is prepared at 12.40pm.

More than 5,000 visitors were asked to leave the 110-acre zoo shortly afterwards, as keepers rounded up the chimps.

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