A keeper at Shanghai's zoo has been mauled to death by a tiger. (Representational pic)
Beijing:
A keeper at Shanghai's zoo has been mauled to death by a tiger.
The zoo said on its Twitter-like microblog that investigators were looking into the cause of
Tuesday morning's incident. No other details were given.
State media reports identified the victim as a 56-year-old man surnamed Zhou. They cited unidentified colleagues as saying the man entered the tiger enclosure to clean and was not seen again.
The animal involved was identified as a highly endangered South China tiger, considered effectively extinct in the wild after decades of being hunted as a pest.
Built on a former golf course, Shanghai's zoo is one of China's largest and most popular urban animal parks.
The zoo said on its Twitter-like microblog that investigators were looking into the cause of
Tuesday morning's incident. No other details were given.
State media reports identified the victim as a 56-year-old man surnamed Zhou. They cited unidentified colleagues as saying the man entered the tiger enclosure to clean and was not seen again.
The animal involved was identified as a highly endangered South China tiger, considered effectively extinct in the wild after decades of being hunted as a pest.
Built on a former golf course, Shanghai's zoo is one of China's largest and most popular urban animal parks.
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