Visitors including children are said to have watched in horror this afternoon at the confrontation between the two animals at an outside enclosure for mixed African species at Colchester Zoo in Essex.

A spokesperson from Colchester Zoo says they are devastated by what has happened.

Edward Bull, 44, described the moment a zebra was viciously attacked by a rhino whilst they visited the zoo with their 18-month-old son, saying the 'zebra was 'just [in the] wrong place at the wrong time.'

Visitors including children are said to have watched in horror at the fight between the two animals this afternoon at Colchester Zoo in Essex.

A zebra has been killed at Colchester Zoo in Essex after allegedly being attacked by rhino in the enclosure where they were both living and the shocking scenes were witnessed by visitors