Zookeepers have blamed fireworks on the annual Bonfire Night celebrations for the death of a baby red panda named Roxie.

Fireworks likely caused the death of a baby red panda at Edinburgh Zoo after she became so stressed that she choked on her own vomit, experts from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said on Thursday.

Edinburgh Zoo staff have slammed the widespread use of fireworks in the city after Guy Fawkes Night explosions literally scared their baby red panda to death. A public petition calling for tighter restrictions on the use of fireworks and signed by more than a million people was delivered to the UK Government last week.