article_snippet.sent: Melvin was a firm favourite among young visitors, having been named in a readers' competition in a national newspaper when Melvin was born at a Norwegian zoo on Easter in 2010.
article_snippet.sent: Witness Øivind Hansen, who was visiting a Norwegian zoo on Easter with Melvin family and photographed the event said even Melvin 23-year-old daughter had come home crying after the incident. '
article_snippet.sent: Melvin had gotten Melvin horns stuck in the enclosure's fence when suddenly the eland, the second largest antelope in the world, suddenly attacked.
article_snippet.sent: The large eland antelope gored five-year-old Melvin to death in an unprovoked attack after giraffe had gotten Melvin head stuck in the enclosure's fence .
article_snippet.sent: Horrible scenes: Around 30 people, many of them children, witnessed Melvin, who was born at a Norwegian zoo on Easter in 2010 and named in a local newspaper competition, die in the enclosure . '
article_snippet.sent: Melvin was panicking and tugged and tore to free Melvin, and then came a rather large animal with sharp horns and ran right into Melvin,' Mr Hansen adds. '
article_snippet.sent: Melvin was gored right near Melvin lungs and heart, and the injuries were so serious that they killed Melvin,' veterinarian Rolf Arne Ølberg, who was called to the scene, said.