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Highway tiger: Big cat in Qatar gives drivers a fright
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Talk about a hair-raising commute.
Drivers in the energy-rich Mideast nation of Qatar got a surprise Monday when an escaped tiger was seen prowling among cars on a major motorway.
Police said they were looking into footage circulating on social media showing the tiger making its way between vehicles in the capital, Doha. Other images showed a man in a traditional white robe holding the big cat on a chain, suggesting it had been recaptured.
Some wealthy Arabs in Qatar and other Gulf states keep big cats as status symbols despite prohibitions against the practice.
A lion escaped its Dubai owner’s home in January and was captured wandering a residential neighbourhood. In Kuwait, a man was sued in 2014 after his pet lion escaped and attacked a Filipina maid.
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