KARACHI: A Bengal tiger has died of kidney failure at Karachi zoo today.
According to a senior director of the KMCs sports, culture and recreation department, the tiger was ill since a week and died of acute kidney failure.
Karachi Zoological Garden Director Mohammad Faheem Khan said the tiger was 16 years old and added that Bengal tigers usually live not more than 17 or 18 years.
He continued that a tender for a new tiger at the zoo will be submitted tomorrow. Earlier, three male black bucks were found dead at the Karachi zoo this month.
