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Man, 21, eaten alive in big cat enclosure after breaking into zoo at night.
A man was killed by tigers at Copenhagen Zoo today after he scaled a fence and crossed a moat to gain access to the predators' enclosure. The victim, who has been identified as a 21-year-old of Afghan descent living in Copenhagen, was savaged by three tigers after he broke into the zoo in the Danish capital in the early hours. He was found dead surrounded by the Siberian tigers when staff arrived for work.
'We received an emergency call at about 7.30am that a person had been found lying in the tiger pen and that three tigers were surrounding that person.'
The tigers attacked him and killed him. It is likely that a bite to the throat was the primary reason for his death.' He has been in the water and the animals must have seen that and attacked him.' Detectives are now trawling through CCTV footage to try to exactly establish how the man accessed the enclosure. Steffen Straede, the zoo's chief executive, said psychologists have been called to talk to staff who found the body.
He added that this is the first incident of its kind in the zoo's 152-year history and that he has no plans to review security. He said: 'If a person really wants to get in there, we cannot prevent it from happening.'
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