How far some Chinese tourists go to avoid zoo entrance charges

Closed-circuit TV captures the three near the entrance to the tiger enclosure at the zoo in Changsha. Photo: Handout.

BEIJING: Two Chinese women and a man, hoping to avoid paying entrance fees, scaled a fence at a zoo in the central city of Changsha, Hunan province on Saturday, only to find themselves metres away from the gate to an area where tigers roam freely, according to a local TV report.

The three were quickly spotted by zoo staff on closed-circuit TV and escorted to safety, and the zoo has left the case in the hands of the local police.