Girl, 8, injured in wolf attack at German zoo

Carsten Koall/dpa/AP

An 8-year-old girl was attacked by at least one wolf inside a German zoo’s enclosure and suffered serious injuries, officials said.

The attack occurred Wednesday during a special event for children at the Johannismühle Wildlife Park, south of Berlin, Teltow-Fläming district, officials said in a news release.

The girl was flown to the hospital, the news release said. A zookeeper intervened before two other girls also in the Arctic wolf enclosure were attacked. The wolves had been given water at the time.

The zoo is closed until further notice as an investigation takes place.

A wolf bit a woman in a shopping area in Hamburg earlier this year, authorities said, in what is believed to be the first such attack since wolves returned to the country in 1998.

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据官方消息，一名8岁女孩在德国一家动物园的围栏内遭到至少一只狼的袭击，身受重伤。

官员在一份新闻稿中表示，袭击事件发生在周三，当时柏林南部泰尔托-弗莱明区的约翰尼斯米勒野生动物园正在举办一场儿童特别活动。

新闻稿称，这名女孩已被空运至医院。一名动物园管理员及时介入，阻止了另外两名同样在北极狼围栏内的女孩遭到袭击。事发时，狼群正在饮水。

动物园因正在进行调查而关闭，直至另行通知。

据当局称，今年早些时候，一名女子在汉堡的一个购物区被狼咬伤，这被认为是自 1998 年狼群重返该国以来发生的第一起此类袭击事件。