The woman died on the spot after she was mauled by a tiger in a Chilean safari park in Rancagua, having entered the enclosure not realising the cage door was open
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A safari park worker died on the spot after she was attacked by a tiger.
The young woman, who has not been publicly named, was among staff cleaning and performing maintenance work at a Chilean safari park in Rancagua.
She was entering an enclosure where the animals are kept when they’re not roaming free in the park when she was attacked, the Daily Star reports.
She hadn’t realised the door of the cage was open and was immediately jumped on by the tiger.
The animal bit her neck, causing her to die almost instantly.
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Williams Espinoza of the Rancagua police said: “She did not realize that the door of the animal’s cage was open and was immediately attacked by this tiger, causing her death on the spot.”
The safari park was closed while police attended the scene and investigated her death.
Jorge Mena, from the regional public prosecutor’s office, said they would investigate whether there is possible third-party culpability following the tragic incident.
The condition of the tiger is not known.
It comes after a zookeeper was mauled to death by a Siberian tiger after the electric fence was switched off.
The experienced worker was killed after the big cat scaled a 12-foot fence when it was turned off for repairs.
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David Solomon, who worked at Seaview Predator Park, was in the passageway between the two tiger enclosures when Jasper the tiger got out and mauled him.
He tried to climb the fence of a different enclosure in a bid to escape the attack but was pulled off.
Mr Solomon died of a broken neck, although reports initially claimed he had died from being bitten by Jasper.
The tiger then jumped the exterior fence to the next enclosure which is home to two other Siberian Tigers, Judah and Amber, before a fight broke out between Judah and Jasper.
Judah was killed seemingly as Jasper wanted the attention of Amber.
