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A young pistillate moving astatine a Chilean safari parkland died connected Friday aft a tiger attacked her, constabulary said.
The woman, who has not been identified by police, was among unit cleaning and performing attraction enactment successful the large cats' enclosure astatine a safari parkland successful the metropolis of Rancagua, 90 kilometers (60 miles) southbound of the superior Santiago.
Visitors thrust done the safari feature, wherever animals tin determination freely. When unit are moving successful the area, animals are confined successful enclosures.
The pistillate who died suffered cervix wounds successful the tiger attack, authorities said.
Williams Espinoza of the Rancagua constabulary said the woman's ordeal was brief. "She did not recognize that the doorway of the animal's cage was unfastened and was instantly attacked by this tiger, causing her decease connected the spot," helium said.
The safari parkland was closed portion constabulary investigated. Jorge Mena, from the determination nationalist prosecutor's office, said they would beryllium investigating imaginable third-party culpability for what happened.
The Rancagua Safari Park did not respond to a petition for comment. The information of the tiger was not known.
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