Nightly News   |  November 04, 2012

Boy mauled by African painted dogs at zoo

A 2-year-old boy fell into the African painted dog cag at the Pittsburgh Zoo on Sunday, where they pounced and mauled him. NBC’s Lester Holt reports.

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>>> we're back now with some of the day's other news. in pittsburgh, a boy was killed when he fell about 14 feet into an enclosure at a zoo and was mauled by a pack of wild dogs . zoo officials entered the enclosure and used tranquilizer darts, but it was too late to save the boy.