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Police in the US state of Ohio are to look into the shooting of a 17-year-old gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo. They will the facts around the killing of Harambe the gorilla after a four-year-old boy into the ape's enclosure on Saturday. Video footage the gorilla dragging the boy through shallow water in his cage for up to ten minutes. Some people who at the zoo said they were worried about the little boy's safety. Other people said the gorilla was to the child and that the animal was upset by the noise from the crowds of people looking at the event. Zookeepers a decision to the gorilla because they feared for the boy's life.

Animal rights groups are very angry that the gorilla was and killed. They say zookeepers should have a tranquilizer gun on the animal to put it to sleep. Zookeepers say it would have too long for the 200kg gorilla to be sedated. They say this would have too dangerous. There is now an online petition that 300,000 people have to hold the boy's mother and the zoo accountable for Harambe's death. Many people say the mother should have after her son better to him from falling into the gorilla's area. The mother said no parent in the world can their children every second. She said: "As a society, we are quick to how a parent could their eyes off their child."