FIVE people were wounded, two of them needing hospital treatment, when a pet hyena broke loose in a northeast Nigerian city. The hyena, used for entertaining crowds by its owner Ismaila Ibrahim, broke its chain and attacked passers-by in the Gomari district of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, a report by state-run Borno Radio said. After it attacked, police cornered the beast and shot it dead, Borno State Police Commissioner Bello Uba Ringim told a local radio station. Ibrahim, the owner of the hyena, is currently being interrogated in preparation for a possible prosecution, he added. – AFP