Gorilla escapes and seizes woman at Dutch zoo

A GORILLA weighing 30 stone escaped from its enclosure and ran amok in a Netherlands zoo yesterday, biting one woman, dragging her around, and causing scenes of panic among dozens of families before being subdued.

The Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo was evacuated and the 11-year old gorilla, named Bokito, was eventually barricaded inside a restaurant, shot with a sedative dart and recaptured.

It was not clear how the black-backed male managed to climb the high stone walls surrounding his enclosure, and across a moat.