A man who was mauled to death by a tiger at a Yorkshire zoo was told to ‘play dead’ in a bid to survive, witnesses have said.
Desperate onlookers at Yorkshire Wildlife Park frantically screamed at the man to lay still after he climbed into the big cat’s enclosure and was attacked at about 1.30pm on October 10.
Moments before the attack, the man, who was reported to be alone and dancing to music in his headphones, had asked visitors to take a picture with the 200kg male Siberian tiger, Altai.
He is believed to have climbed into the enclosure where he began ‘praying
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