According to the Forestry Bureau of Huaichuan County, Henan Province, on the morning of May 25, an emergency occurred in the Peacock Valley of Danjiang, Shangji Town, Huaichuan County, in which a breeder was bitten while feeding a tiger, and two tigers ran out of the iron cage. The injured breeder Jia Moumou was sent to the hospital at the first time and died after the rescue was ineffective.
After the incident, the Huaichuan County Party Committee and the county government quickly launched an emergency plan, organized the relevant personnel of the county emergency, public security, armed police, forestry, fire fighting, health and Shangji Town, rushed to the scene of the incident to deal with the emergency, and organized the unrelated personnel in the valley and the people around the Peacock Valley to quickly evacuate and evacuate. The two tigers out of the cage were controlled in the Peacock Valley, after many unsuccessful entrapments, in order to ensure the safety of the lives of the masses, according to the situation at the scene and reported to the higher authorities for approval, at 14:20 and 15:12, the two tigers were killed successively, and the safety risk was lifted.
According to the preliminary investigation, the two tigers are owned by a circus in Suzhou City, Anhui Province, and are leased and performed by Peacock Valley, holding business licenses and domestication and breeding permits. At present, the aftermath and accident investigation are being carried out in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and procedures.
Huaichuan County responded to the reason for killing the fleeing tiger
After the accident, the two tigers that came out of the cage were controlled in the Peacock Valley, and the Huaichuan County Public Security Bureau and the County Forestry Bureau urgently requested anesthesia gun support. At the same time, the captors came up with ways to trap the tiger.
The Nanyang Forestry Bureau contacted the relevant personnel of Nanyang City Park to carry a blowpipe anesthesia gun to the scene, but after investigation, it was impossible to approach the tiger. The arresters also tried to feed the roosters with anesthetics as bait, but several entrapments failed. After that, the arresting personnel invited a professional animal trainer from Fangcheng County, but it also only had the method of blowing anesthesia needles in the mouth, and it was only effective within 5 meters, and the arresting personnel gave up this method because of the personal safety of the animal trainer.
In the process of urgently transporting anesthesia guns from other places, the tiger has become very frantic, showing a clear tendency to attack people, posing a serious threat to the personal safety of the arrestees.
Due to the dense forest behind the Peacock Valley, the sky was raining at that time, and the visibility was very low, once the tiger ran into the mountain forest, it would greatly increase the difficulty of arrest. In addition, there are residential villages around the Peacock Valley, which is only about 6 kilometers away from the county seat, and once the tiger runs to the residential area or county seat, the consequences are even more unimaginable. In this emergency situation, in order to ensure the safety of the people's lives, after asking the relevant departments at a higher level for approval, it was decided to kill the tiger.
At present, Huaichuan County has ordered the Peacock Valley Park to be suspended for rectification. Regarding the body of the tiger, Huaichuan County will dispose of it in accordance with laws and regulations.
News highlights:
May 23
A zoo keeper in Bengbu, Anhui Province, was attacked by tigers
Tragically killed
At about 8:00 a.m. on May 23, a tragedy occurred in the Zhanggongshan Zoo in Yuhui District, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, where the keeper Master Yang was attacked by a tiger in his daily work and was rushed to the hospital and declared dead. (Review: Zoo keepers were attacked and killed by tigers, and have been raising tigers for nearly 20 years)
According to the hospital, when the injured person was sent, there were obvious bites or scratches on the neck, head and back, and there were no obvious vital signs after examination.
It is understood that the keeper, 55 years old, has been raising tigers at Zhanggongshan Zoo for nearly two decades. According to the local authorities, it is preliminarily believed that the keepers entered the tiger cage to clean without ensuring that the door of the tiger isolation room was locked.
It is understood that Bengbu Zhanggongshan Zoo is located in the west of Zhanggongshan Park, when it was built as the second largest zoo in Anhui, with a wide variety of animals, it is also a wildlife shelter and rescue station in Bengbu City, and the breeding technology of the Siberian tiger in the park has a high reputation in East China and even the national animal kingdom, and there are currently four Siberian tigers in the park.
At present, the relevant departments are investigating and handling the incident.
Source: Huaichuan Network, CCTV News, etc
Source: Qilu Evening News