A boy's hand was ripped off by a tiger after he climbed into a restricted area and stroked the animal through its cage.
Witnesses say the 11-year-old cried 'I'm going to die, I can't feel my arm' after he was mauled while reportedly trying to pass meat through the bars.
The victim's three-year-old brother is believed to have witnessed the attack at the zoo in Cascavel, Brazil.
Video shows the victim being lifted back over the security barrier which his father had allowed him to clamber over despite warning signs.
Music teacher Ricardo Espindola, who helped the boy's father while they waited for the ambulance, said: 'He was giving the tiger pieces of food, meat and stroking it.
‘I went down and saw the father running with the boy with his arm hanging. I called the ambulance.
'He was in shock, talking nonsense, talking that he was going to die.'
The boy was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to hospital, where it is understood doctors partially amputated his arm.
According to zookeepers, the tiger, called Hu, is 'one of the sweetest' at the zoo.
Witnesses say the 11-year-old cried 'I'm going to die, I can't feel my arm' after he was mauled while reportedly trying to pass meat through the bars.
The victim's three-year-old brother is believed to have witnessed the attack at the zoo in Cascavel, Brazil.
Video shows the victim being lifted back over the security barrier which his father had allowed him to clamber over despite warning signs.
Music teacher Ricardo Espindola, who helped the boy's father while they waited for the ambulance, said: 'He was giving the tiger pieces of food, meat and stroking it.
‘I went down and saw the father running with the boy with his arm hanging. I called the ambulance.
'He was in shock, talking nonsense, talking that he was going to die.'
The boy was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to hospital, where it is understood doctors partially amputated his arm.
According to zookeepers, the tiger, called Hu, is 'one of the sweetest' at the zoo.
TRANSLATED : 11 year old boy was attacked by a tiger on the afternoon of Wednesday (30), in Cascavel Zoo.
He walked with his father and a brother 3 years old when the attack occurred. Responders and the doctor gave first SIATE care the child was rushed to University Hospital (HUOP).
He had a tear (torn nerves) Full right arm, and had to be intubated still in place
A family of Santa Catarina also visited the space, and according to them, the child was in a forbidden area (between the guardrail and the grid cages) and gave food for the tiger and also the lion, as well as caress them.
They filmed as they found absurd the situation. In pictures boy takes food from his pocket and gives the animal. His arm goes completely through the bars. At other times it runs from one side to the other.
Tiger feels uncomfortable. 's family decides to leave, they were also with children, and did not agree with the attitude. Soon after they heard the screams and returned. The music teacher was Ricardo Espindola who helped his father to take the boy near the cage. they lay the boy on the floor and waiting for medical help.
According to reports, every time the child cries begging by the arm, because no longer felt it. "He was giving pieces of food, meat and stroking, stirring in paw, we finished seeing the animals, we went home, heard the screams, I say, gave problem.
Went down and saw the desperate father running with the boy with the hanging arm, I helped get him near the grill and call the ambulance, "reported Richard. "He was talking, but he was in shock, already talking nonsense, talking was going to die." Bride of Ricardo, Fernanda Aparecida Matias, said he thought his father worked at the zoo so the child intimacy with animals . "He said that the boy liked the same critter."
She continues, "the father was standing and the boy always with the arm into the screen, trying to treat, taking drumstick from his pocket, we thought" should work here, "but we looked while we were appalled because he moved the animal and the animal did not, was angry.
Wonder we talked though, because the father did nothing and so we left we heard the screams and came back and my boyfriend helped get him with his arm like that. " According biologist with the Zoo, Vanilce Oliveira, the tiger that attacked the boy called Hu, is 3 years old incomplete and is one of the sweetest cats in the park.
He weighs about 230 pounds and is used to the visitation, but it is believed that the manner in which exposure was generated stress to the animal than just attacking the boy in a way to amaze you.
Another issue raised by the biologist is that the animal was treated well, why not attacked by hunger. He was placed in a management area and will be observed. "We try to keep more guards in this area, they round the enclosure of the monkeys were doing and this time his father took advantage of the absence of the guard to do this act.
Lets check with the supervising what really happened and if it is a wrong attitude guard, we will take appropriate action, "said Lauri Dallagnol. Near the lions enclosure there is a guardhouse, where according to the head of the Asset Guard, is one of the guards, who at the time was in the grounds of the monkeys. He reports that will examine whether there was a server failure.
Source : Catve , DailyMail
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