- United States: A policeman killed a tiger after attacking a man who tried to stroke it.
A police officer shot dead the Malaysian feline that belongs to a Florida zoo.
The man who was trying to stroke the Malaysian tiger in a restricted area of a Florida zoo manages to escape thanks to a police officer who intervened at the right time. The latter shot him Wednesday evening and the tiger fell dead after refusing to release the arm of this individual, according to local media.
The 20-year-old man, an employee of a cleaning company working for the zoo, was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized. Collier County police said the individual broke into Wednesday evening after the zoo was closed to the public "in a no-go area near a tiger that was in its enclosure."
Psychological help has been put in place.
The tiger that was killed is called Eko and he was 8 years old and he was a very good tiger. On social networks, Internet users have commented on this accident
whose victim was a magnificent tiger. The policeman, for sure, had no choice and his decision was one hundred percent logical. The zoo, which did not respond to the requests on Thursday, announced on its website that it was setting up psychological help for employees in the face of "bereavement."