Tinatin Kiguradze, AP
People help a hippopotamus escape from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday.
Heavy rainfall started late Saturday and turned the Vere, normally a small stream, into a "raging river," the news agency said.
Residents in Tbilisi were warned to stay indoors. "Not all the animals who ran away from the zoo have been captured. Therefore, I want to ask the populace to refrain from moving about the city without" an urgent need to, Mayor David Narmania said.
Three zoo workers were among the dead, the Associated Press reported. There were no immediate reports that any of the fatalities were due to animal attacks.
An escaped hippopotamus was cornered in one of the city's main squares and subdued with a tranquilizer gun.
Irakli Garibashvili, prime minister of the former Soviet republic, said the damage caused by the flooding is substantial, and called for people to remain at home as search for the animals continued, Civil.ge. reported.
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