An Indian student was attacked and killed by a white tiger after he climbed into the rare animal’s enclosure at a zoo in New Delhi, India’s capital on Tuesday, September 23 2014, Metro UK reports.
Eyewitnesses disclosed that visitors at the New Delhi Zoo threw stones at the tiger in a last-minute bid to distract and stop it from feasting on the helpless Maqsood, whose entrance into the enclosure has been under debate as some witnesses say he fell into it while Riaz Khan said he believed Maqsood leaped over the railing.
An unnamed eye witness told CNN-IBN “Around 1.30pm, we were in the reptiles area when we heard loud screams, I ran to the tiger enclosure where we saw that a white tiger had caught the student by his neck and he was writhing in pain.Some children threw small sticks and stones at the tiger.”
Although police officers arrived on the scene as quickly as they could, it was of no use as they couldn’t save the student from the animal.
