CHANDIGARH, OCT 20: A 25-year-old man who tried to `shake hands' with a bear, was on Tuesday mauled to death after the animal pulled him into the enclosure at the MC Zoological Park.At around 2.45 pm, the man, apparently a truck driver from Jammu, jumped over the railing, leaned over the wall and tried to touch the bear. The bear grabbed the man and pulled him down; another bear rushed over and both pinned the man to the ground. By the time zoo director Vinod Sharma reached with a tranquilliser gun, it was all over, the bears had torn open his intestines. They then dragged him around the enclosure until the body was severely mauled.
Another zoo visitor, Brijesh Kumar, said that even before the incident, the victim was ``teasing animals at every enclosure. We warned him but he did not listen.''
Said director Sharma: ``About five such incidents have happened before but no one had been killed. Guards were on duty and reached in no time.'' A hundred rupee note, a truck key and an empty whisky bottle werefound on the body. It has been sent for post mortem.
Tiger mauls youth in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: An 18-year-old youth was mauled to death by a tiger in the Nehru Zoological Park on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday. Zoo curator K N Banerji said that the boy climbed the 20-feet high wall of the tiger safari park to retrieve a kite but fell into the park accidentally. A tiger, which spotted him immediately, pounced on him and dragged him to a distance of 200 yards in the sprawling safari enclosure.Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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