Zoos indeed are great places for fun and learning, as animal admirers can watch a range of fascinating wild creatures at a safe distance under controlled conditions. But sometimes, even zoos can be dangerous when humans get too close. A scary incident in Alipore zoo terrified the people of Kolkata on Friday morning.
According to reports, a man was mauled by a lion in Kolkata's zoo after he entered the animal's cage. The man has been seriously injured by the lion and there were several claw marks on his body.
The man was reportedly seen roaming in front of the lion's enclosure this morning. Suddenly, he climbed up the enclosure to the net and entered the lion's cage. The man was then attacked by the creature. The lion tried to drag him away. But within a short time, the workers in the zoo noticed what was happening and One of them rescued the man from the lion's mouth. By then the man was quite injured. He has been admitted to SSC Hospital by the zoo authorities. The name and identity of the man are yet to be ascertained.
The incident has raised serious questions on the security lapses of the Alipore Zoo as a few days ago, three foreign birds were stolen from a birdcage in front of the lion's enclosure.
Though the zoo authorities have claimed that the man is not in a condition to talk and is mentally unstable but the question is how did the man enter the cage amid so much of security and CCTV cameras.
List of such incidents when people were mauled to death due to security lapses in zoos
Mar 4, 2020
A case in point was the shocking end of a 35-year-old man, mauled to death by a tigress at Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park in Ranchi on March 4.
Jan 20, 2019
A man in his 30s was mauled to death by two lions, after he entered the enclosure by scaling an over-25-feet wall, at Chhatbir Zoo in Mohali, Punjab.
Sept 24, 2014
Maqsood Khan, 20, was mauled to death by a white tiger when he fell into its enclosure at Delhi zoo.
July 2012
A tiger seriously injured a 32-year-old man who ventured into its enclosure at the Tata Steel Zoological Park in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
Aug 2009
A drunk man ended with a severely mauled arm, when he tried to feed grass to a white tiger at Hyderabad’s Nehru
Zoological Park.
Dec 2007
Two tigers mauled a visitor at Guwahati Zoo who tried to take a photograph while putting his hand into their enclosure. He lost one of his arms and died later.
Dec 17, 2000
A tiger mauled a man to death in Kolkata zoo, after he jumped a fence and swam across a moat to fight the animal.
Jan 1996
A tiger killed one of the two drunk men who tried to garland it after entering the enclosure at
Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo.