Zookeepers rushed to close gates to an enclosure before a tiger that killed their colleague could reach a public area, an inquest has heard. Rosa King, 33, was savaged by a male Malayan tiger called Cicip at Hamerton zoo park in Cambridgeshire. “Some members of the public assumed they were shouting at them so they ran to the porch area of the tiger enclosure,” she said. “We then shut both gates of the tiger enclosure.”Frank York, a regular visitor to the zoo, was in the public viewing area when he saw King’s body lying in the enclosure with the tiger in the vicinity. The coroner told York that “nothing could be done … for Rosa” at the time he found her.

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2019 17:07 UTC