TOKYO (AP) — A baby giant panda died at a Tokyo zoo today, less than a week after becoming the first to be born at the facility in 24 years. The birth had created excitement across Japan, and the nation was mourning the baby’s death.

Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo said the male panda, who had not been named yet, died of pneumonia this morning. A zookeeper found the baby, who was born last Thursday, lying belly up, without breathing, on his 7-year-old mother’s chest.

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