Police believe tigers killed man in zoo
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July 12, 2012, Thursday
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A 21-YEAR-OLD man was found dead yesterday inside a tiger den at the Copenhagen Zoo after having received a fatal bite to his throat, Danish police said.
Lars Borg, a spokesman for the Copenhagen police, said it was unclear how or why the man had entered the pit, but said investigators could not exclude suicide as a motive. The victim is a foreign national who holds a Danish residence permit, but police did not release his identity or his nationality.
"Everything indicates that the tigers have killed him," Borg said, noting the man had been bitten on the thigh, chest, face and throat.
His body was found surrounded by the park's three Siberian tigers by a zookeeper yesterday morning.
Borg said the man likely entered the tiger area from a low wall surrounding the den and then ended up in the moat inside the enclosure. "He has been in the water and the animals must have seen that and attacked him," Borg said.
Investigators were going through video footage to try to establish the man's path inside the park.
Copenhagen Zoo manager Steffen Straede says it is the first time in the zoo's 152-year history that such an incident has occurred, and there were no plans to reassess its security or to put the tigers down.
"If a person really wants to get in, we cannot prevent it from happening," he said.
Lars Borg, a spokesman for the Copenhagen police, said it was unclear how or why the man had entered the pit, but said investigators could not exclude suicide as a motive. The victim is a foreign national who holds a Danish residence permit, but police did not release his identity or his nationality.
"Everything indicates that the tigers have killed him," Borg said, noting the man had been bitten on the thigh, chest, face and throat.
His body was found surrounded by the park's three Siberian tigers by a zookeeper yesterday morning.
Borg said the man likely entered the tiger area from a low wall surrounding the den and then ended up in the moat inside the enclosure. "He has been in the water and the animals must have seen that and attacked him," Borg said.
Investigators were going through video footage to try to establish the man's path inside the park.
Copenhagen Zoo manager Steffen Straede says it is the first time in the zoo's 152-year history that such an incident has occurred, and there were no plans to reassess its security or to put the tigers down.
"If a person really wants to get in, we cannot prevent it from happening," he said.
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