Animal handler attacked by tiger at Australia theme park, rushed to hospital with serious wounds to her arm
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A tiger bit an animal handler on the arm Monday at an Australian amusement park, officials said.
The woman was taken by ambulance from Dreamworld in Coomera in Queensland state to the Gold Coast University Hospital in stable condition, Queensland Ambulance Service director Justin Payne said.
Staff managed the bleeding as an ambulance was called to Dreamworld just before 9 a.m., Payne said. The amusement park opens to the public at 10 a.m.
park’s “Tiger Island” says it houses nine Sumatran and Bengal tigers. The park’s website invites audiences to be “amazed by their might and raw power during feeding time.”
Tiger attacls at mainstream theme parks and zoos are extremely rare. In 2020, a female keeper at Zurich’s zoo was killed by one of the park’s Siberian tigers. The year before, that a 7-year-old Sumatran tiger attacked and injured a female zookeeper at a zoo in Kansas.
AFP contributed to this report.
Source: cbsnews.com