Runaway tiger kills man in Tbilisi after flood damages zoo

A policeman stands next to a white tiger killed by police in Tbilisi, Georgia, June 17, 2015.[Photo/Agencies]

The flooding, triggered by torrential rains over the weekend, killed at least 19 people, destroyed houses and tore up roads. Six people remain missing.

The zoo said Wednesday that one of its 17 penguins was found alive by Georgian border guards in the Kura River near the border with Azerbaijan, 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the capital. Eight other penguins had been found alive earlier.

Zoo officials say less than half of the zoo's 600 inhabitants have survived the flooding.

This story has been corrected to reflect that an earlier statement by the Interior Ministry that the tiger also wounded a second man was incorrect.