Police stop tiger romp

AUTHORITIES say a Bengal tiger shot and killed after scaring motorists on a Georgia highway and chasing a dog through a neighbourhood had escaped from a truck on its way from Florida to Tennessee.

Feld Entertainment spokesman Stephen Payne said Suzy somehow got loose during a watering break near Atlanta.

Henry County police say drivers spotted the tiger on Interstate 75 in Stockbridge, southeast of Atlanta. The cat ended up in a subdivision, where it began chasing a dog.

Police then shot the tiger.