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UKRAINE - Officials in Ukraine recaptured a crocodile which had escaped from a travelling circus six months previously and repeatedly eluded search teams.
The reptile was found basking in a pool at a thermal power station in the east of the country, where the water was warmer than the nearby sea.
"We caught the crocodile alive today," Oleksander Soldatov, a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry said by telephone. "We are now contacting the owner so that he can come and fetch it."
The crocodile escaped from the circus in late May and was spotted several times lurking around industrial sites near the city of Mariupol, on the coast of the Sea of Azov.
- REUTERS
