FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany’s annual inflation rate in January has risen to 1.9 percent from 1.7 percent the month before, a jump that’s likely to stoke local criticism of the European Central Bank’s stimulus efforts.

The figures, published Monday by the state statistics agency, will likely mean inflation for the wider 19-country eurozone will rise from December’s 1.1 percent.

Eurozone figures are due Tuesday.

The ECB has held its benchmark interest rate at zero and plans to continue with its bond-buying program through year-end to get eurozone inflation toward its goal of just under 2 percent. ECB head Mario Draghi has said the stimulus needs to continue because higher inflation is due to volatile oil prices, not underlying price pressures.

Critics in Germany say the policy hurts savers and bails out indebted governments.

[naviga:h3]Man killed by tiger in Chinese zoo[/naviga:h3]

BEIJING — A tiger-mauling death at a Chinese zoo is under investigation by local authorities who say the victim climbed a fence into the tiger’s enclosure.

The attack occurred Saturday at a resort on Dongqian Lake in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. A local government statement says the victim, identified only by his surname of Zhang, climbed a fence instead of buying tickets. The statement said Zhang’s wife and two children bought tickets to enter the zoo.

Zhang allegedly passed through a wire netting and eventually climbed a wall to enter the tiger enclosure. A tiger attacked him inside the enclosure, as visitors to the park apparently watched from a distance. Photos and video shared on social media appear to show Zhang lying on the ground as tigers circle him.

State television reported one tiger was shot dead by local police, and three others nearby were dispersed using firecrackers.