Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Cleaner killed by white tigers.
Visitors to the Singapore Zoo on Monday were given a massive shock when they saw a man being killed by endangered white tigers. Several eye witnesses have given accounts that they saw the man throwing and flinging objects and brooms at the walls before he entered the enclosure. The crowd witnessed the incident when the man jumped into the moat that surrounded the enclosure. The crowd who had witnessed this thought it was part of an act. However, later he climbed over the wall that surrounded the enclosure and started to agitate the tigers by waving the brooms at them and making loud sounds with the pail. When the tigers approached him, he pulled the pail over his head and crouched in a foetal postion. The white tigers with claw the size of baseballs gloves gave him a few swipes which promptly started to make him scream in pain. Minutes after the cries about twenty zoo keepers arrived with pails and brooms and tried to ward off the tigers. There were two keepers who had live ammunition but did not use it. The man died of severe head trauma at the scene. Several of the zoo keepers have said that the man told them before he went to the enclosure that they were not going to see him anymore. However they did not take him seriously and just laughed. The authorities have called this suicide.
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