A guard was killed in a white tiger (White Tiger) attack in a Japanese zoo in southern Japan. Officials on Tuesday said this information.
A local police official told AFP, "A zoo keeper was found lying in a bloody condition inside the cage. After being sent to the hospital, the duty doctor declared him dead.
This tragedy occurred on Monday night at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in Kagoshima, southern Japan.
It is said in the media that 40-year-old Akira Furusho was bleeding from the throat. Officials thought that White Tiger attacked him with a rare species. There are four white tigers in the zoo.
The zoo authorities said, after the attack, the tiger was paired with trunkylier songs. There was no immediate mention of the condition of the tiger