A zookeeper was mauled to death by a white tiger in a zoo enclosure in Japan. The body of the zookeeper was found inside the tiger's cage.
He was bleeding from the neck and was taken to a hospital but was declared dead. Officials believe the 40-year-old man was attacked by one of the four white tigers of the zoo. The attack took place late on Monday at the Hirakawa Zoological Park in the southern city of Kagoshima.
The tigers were tranquilised before rescue workers and police arrived at the scene.
Police are now investigating how the zoo looks after its white tigers, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.
In 2017, a British zookeeper was killed by a tiger in its enclosure in a Cambridgeshire zoo while in Russia, a keeper survived a tiger attack in the city of Kaliningrad.
