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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tim Friend & Charlie Duffield

Inside 'World's saddest zoo' home to blind bear locked in cage for 30 years

A blind bear has been locked in a cage for 30 years, and miserable monkeys shrouded in darkness, at the "world's saddest zoo ".

Animal welfare groups are attempting to get the centre - nicknamed "Salvation Park" - closed down.

When officials encountered the zoo in Armenia, they found dozens of other animals, including a lioness and monkeys, in a ramshackle dark barn.

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