A captive Malaysian tiger, who snatched and did not want to let go of the mouth of a man who tried to pet him, in a restricted area of a Florida zoo, died after a police officer shot him last night , as broadcast by local media.
The man, about 20 years old, who worked in a cleaning company on behalf of the zoo, was seriously injured and is being treated.
He entered last night, after the zoo was closed to the public, “in a restricted area, near a tiger that was inside its fenced area”, explained the police of Collier county, where the Naples city zoo is located. .
The man then passed his hand through an opening in the fence and was “stroking or feeding the animal”, according to the first information of the police, when his tiger grabbed it.
After kicking the fence once in an attempt to free the man from the animal’s teeth, the first police officer to rush to the scene shot the tiger, killing 8-year-old Echo, according to local press reports.
The zoo, which has not responded today to requests from the French Agency to comment, announced on its website that it provides psychological assistance to its staff in the face of “mourning”.
Messages of support for the workers as well as comments with which the people expressed their sorrow had flooded the Facebook page of the zoo this morning, with the users talking about the “unnecessary” death of a “wonderful tiger”.
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