- Title: INDIA-WHITE TIGER ATTACK Student mauled by white tiger in New Delhi zoo
- Date: 24th September 2014
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 24, 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EXTERIOR OF A POLICE STATION A BOARD READING 'POLICE STATION HAZRAT NIZAMUDDIN' (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) VICTIM'S FATHER, PARDES, SAYING: "It is the fault of the zoo officials as they could not stop my son from jumping. If they had stopped my son once and then also he went back there, they should have stopped him again. If they have kept such dangerous animals then they should keep a guard outside the enclosure."
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- Location: India
- Country: India
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: A student jumped into the enclosure of a white tiger at New Delhi zoo on Tuesday (September 21) and was soon trapped by the animal.
As one man filmed the event on his cell phone, others shouted at the animal to try and get him to move away from the child, Maqsood.
After about 20 to 15 minutes, according to a witness, one man tried to jump into the enclosure to help Maqsood when, suddenly, after some time spent starring at the child and pawing him occasionally, the tiger suddenly took the boy by the neck and dragged him to the other side of his enclosure.
Police said Maqsood was 19 or 20 years old although local media said he appeared to be a teenager.
Maqsood's father, Pardes, blamed the zoo for his son's death.
"It is the fault of the zoo officials as they could not stop my son from jumping. If they had stopped my son once and then also he went back there, they should have stopped him again. If they have kept such dangerous animals then they should keep a guard outside the enclosure," he said.
Zoo officials said the schoolboy jumped inside the animal's enclosure despite being warned against it by security guards.
The name of the white tiger is Vijay and was born in New Delhi zoo in 2007.
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