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Putin saves TV crew from tiger
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-01 17:31 Moscow - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been feted by Russian media for saving a TV crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.
Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild. Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilliser gun "Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news on Sunday. The 55-year-old Russian Prime Minister was shown striding through the forest in camouflage and desert boots before grappling with the feline foe. He helped to measure the tiger's incisors before placing a satellite transmitter around the neck of the beast, which can weigh up to 450kg and measure about 3 metres from nose to the tip of the tail.
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