A woman has been killed, and another injured, by Siberian tigers at the Beijing Badaling Wildlife World enclosure near The Great Wall on Saturday (Jul 23). (Photo : YouTube/CCTV News)
A Chinese woman was mauled to death by Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing on July 23, Saturday after she stepped out of her vehicle inside the zoo's tiger enclosure.
Shocking CCTV camera footage from Beijing Badaling Wildlife World shows a woman being attacked and dragged by a tiger as she exits a white sedan and walks over to the driver's side following an argument with other occupants in the vehicle.
The driver, identified as the woman's husband and an older woman, later confirmed as her 57-year-old mother, can then be seen rushing to the rescue of the woman but the mother was killed as she tried to save her daughter from the tiger. The victim's grandson was also in the car when the attack took place, according to the South China Morning Post.
The Yanqing district government later confirmed that one woman was killed and another woman was severely injured in a tiger attack at the safari park after they stepped outside of their vehicle without permission.
The Beijing Badaling Wildlife World, which lies at the base of the Great Wall, is known for its huge open enclosures and allows visitors to take a tour of the park in their own vehicles but are warned against getting out because of the presence of dangerous wild animals, according to BBC News.
The daughter was rushed to a nearby hospital where she received medical treatment for her injuries early Sunday morning. She is still in serious condition.
A spokeswoman for the district's afforestation bureau told a local news outlet that the woman left the vehicle despite warnings from nearby zoo workers who were patrolling the area before the tiger attack.
She pointed out that the safari park had several signs throughout the park asking visitors to stay in their vehicles at all times and also issued repeated warnings over loudspeakers.
This is not the first time that there has been such an incident at the wildlife park. In October 2012, an old woman suffered severe injuries after a tiger attacked her on her way to a toilet in the zoo and an officer was mauled to death by tigers in August 2014 after he left his patrol vehicle.
Watch the shocking incident below:
