Source: Xinhua| 2019-01-02 04:54:53|Editor: yan

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- A child was injured Tuesday after falling into the rhino exhibit at a zoo in U.S. state of Florida, local authorities said.

Brevard County Fire Rescue tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the incident occurred at the Brevard Zoo.

A trauma alert was issued for the boy, who was taken to a pediatric hospital, and his mother was transported to an Orlando-area hospital for treatment, said the tweet.

It is unclear what kind of injuries the mother and the child were suffering from.

"According to witnesses, the child stumbled and fell in between two of the poles and at this point, the snout of at least one of the rhinoceroses made contact with the child," a zoo spokesman said, quoted by local news outlets.

The snout is not the horn of the rhino, but below the horn near the rhino's mouth area.