SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador鈥擜 white tiger being kept in a private zoo in El Salvador fatally attacked its keeper on Friday and escaped but was recaptured hours later, police said.
鈥淚t was a horrible situation,鈥� a police inspector, Mario Macal, told Agence France-Presse.
鈥淚t looks like the keeper wasn鈥檛 following safety protocols as he fed the white tiger and it attacked him, causing serious injuries that caused his death.鈥�
The big cat was being kept in an animal park run by a group called the Wildlife Refuge Foundation on the outskirts of Jayaque, a town just west of the capital San Salvador.
The property holds around 100 animals, including African lions, jaguars, hippopotamuses, pumas and foxes.
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