Zoo where gorilla was shot closes Twitter accounts

The Twitter accounts of an Ohio zoo targeted by online critics and trolls over the shooting of a gorilla have been taken down.

The Cincinnati Zoo has said it is not amused by the memes, online petitions and signs about Harambe, a 17-year-old great ape killed in May by a special zoo response team after a three-year-old boy got into his enclosure. Harambe has been mourned, memorialised and satirised nearly continuously since his death.