A tiger bit off a keeper’s hand and attacked two other people at a safari park near Tokyo on Wednesday, according to Japanese media (Jan 5). The tiger was not in its fenced enclosure, according to the park’s operator.
According to the report, the keepers came across it in a corridor leading to an exhibition area and it attacked. The keeper who lost her hand, a woman in her twenties, was flown to the hospital by medical helicopter, according to Kyodo.
A second woman was bitten in several places, according to Kyodo, and a man was injured in the back of his head. They were also escorted to the hospital. – AFP
