Visitors at a zoo in eastern China got the shock of their lives on Monday when a group of men suddenly appeared and threw a live donkey into the tiger enclosure, the Modern Express newspaper reported.
The donkey died after about half an hour of being mauled by the tigers at the zoo in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.A witness told the paper that the men, wearing red raincoats, drove up to the enclosure with a truck, pushed the donkey in and then tried to throw a goat in too, but were stopped by visitors and security staff.
A zoo official told the paper that a shareholder involved in a dispute with the zoo was behind the incident.
The shareholder had allegedly arranged for the group of men to take some of the zoo’s animals, including the donkey, out of the zoo to sell them.
But they were stopped by security and then tried to push the animals into the tiger enclosure instead, the official said. Horrified social media users condemned the act and called for more care for animals in zoos.
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