Tigers kill man who stuck his arm into zoo cage

A 50-year-old man has been savagely mauled to death by two tigers through the bars of their zoo cage as he tried to take a picture of them with his mobile phone.

The tourist is said to have clambered over a safety barrier in order to get a really good close-up picture of the Bengal tigers at the zoo in Guwahati in northeast India.



After he put his arm through the bars of the cage the two tigers attacked him and tore off his arm at the shoulder as his horrified wife and two children looked on helplessly.

The man, named as Jayaprakash Bezbaruah, a government official from a neighbouring town, was rushed to hospital but he later died from a massive loss of blood.