YAKUTSK, October 13 (RIA Novosti) – A private circus troupe traversing through eastern Siberia lost their animal performers when the tour van went up in flames on the road, local police reported Sunday.
The human artists managed to leave the vehicle in time, but failed to rescue a snake and a lizard used in performances, said a spokesman for police in the Russian Republic of Sakha.
He did not mention the reptiles’ species or said whether the troupe, which hails from St. Petersburg, had any more animals left.
The van – which was taking the circus to a show in the city of Mirny, the capital of Russia’s diamond mining industry – was apparently set on fire by faulty wiring, the spokesman said.
This is not the first time circus animals meet such fate in the Siberian republic: In 2011, a bus by a Ukrainian circus was torched, killing a she-bear and some pigeons. The arsonists were never found.
In 2009, eight tigers and a lioness from a circus in southern Russia’s Krasnodar suffocated in a tightly locked refrigerator transporting them to the regional capital Yakutsk, also for a performance that never took place.
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